(Just the News) A New York man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release after pleading guilty to attempting to provide material support to a global terror group based in Pakistan.
“Jesus Encarnacion plotted to travel abroad, to join and train with Lashkar e-Tayyiba, infamous worldwide for the jihadist murder of innocent civilians, and to carry out shootings, bombings, and beheadings on behalf of that terrorist organization,” Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York said.
Encarnacion had communicated with an undercover FBI worker (UC-1), not realizing that the individual was connected with the law enforcement agency, prosecutors said.
