GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN — United States Lawyer Andrew Birge declared nowadays that Main United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker sentenced Muse Muse, age 22, of Lansing, Michigan to serve 78 months in federal prison for conspiring to provide materials assistance to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS”), a designated overseas terrorist organization.  Next his release from jail, Muse Muse was purchased to provide 10 a long time of supervised release.  The federal government sought a sentence of 178 months (almost 15 decades) in jail steady with the sentence proposed by the United States Sentencing Pointers.

          On January 21, 2019, specific agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and members of its Joint Terrorism Endeavor Power arrested Muse Muse at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, just after he checked in for a flight to the 1st of a collection of places on his way to Mogadishu, Somalia, with the goal of signing up for ISIS.  Shortly thereafter, his brother Mohamud Muse and cousin Mohamed Haji were arrested as co-conspirators.  Immediately subsequent his arrest, Muse Muse adopted a handwritten assertion organized for him by an FBI exclusive agent that summarized his desire in ISIS and conclusion target regarding his assistance of ISIS. In component, Defendant admitted that he “wanted to be a part of ISIS in Somalia so I would not have to do an assault in the United States.”

          According to court docket files, amongst December 2018 and January 2019, Muse Muse coordinated