(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) A former St. Louis County resident who supplied money to help a man who fought and died for the Islamic State in Syria was sentenced Friday to five and one-half years in prison.
Armin Harcevic, 41, told U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry that he donated $1,500 believing he was helping Bosnians who had gone to Syria to protect civilians, including Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a St. Louis County resident, and before he learned about the atrocities being committed by ISIS fighters there. There was no mention of ISIS or al Qaeda at the time, he said.
“If I’d known what Pazara would have become, I would never have given the money,” Harcevic said. “I ended up helping something that I hated.”
