An Ohio gentleman was sentenced right now to 20 yrs in prison for trying to offer materials assistance to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and making an attempt to dedicate a dislike crime, for arranging an attack on a synagogue in the Toledo, Ohio space.

Damon M. Joseph, aka Abdullah Ali Yusuf, 23, of Holland, Ohio, pleaded responsible in May 2021. In accordance to courtroom files, in 2018, Joseph drew the focus of regulation enforcement by submitting images of weapons and several messages in help of ISIS on his social media accounts, as very well as a photograph at first dispersed by the media wing of ISIS.

“Inspired by ISIS, Damon Joseph prepared to carry out a fatal terrorist assault at a synagogue in Ohio.  He hoped to cause mass casualties by picking a time when many innocent victims would be existing.  For this perform, he will now shell out 20 years in jail,” reported Acting Assistant Lawyer General Mark J. Lesko of the Justice Department’s Nationwide Protection Division. “We are fully commited to identifying, disrupting, and holding accountable people today who search for to engage in these assaults.  I commend the agents, analysts, and prosecutors who recognized the risk posed by this defendant and took motion to safeguard the community from his plans.”

“The defendant prepared to trigger substantial hurt to members of the Toledo, Ohio, Jewish group by carrying out a violent federal loathe crime,” claimed Assistant Attorney Common Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s