(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) A St. Louis County woman was sentenced Tuesday to four years in federal prison for helping supply money and equipment to a man who fought and died in Syria for the Islamic State.
Sedina Hodzic also will be deported back to Bosnia when she is released from prison.
Hodzic was one of five defendants from the St. Louis area and elsewhere indicted in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in 2015. All have pleaded guilty and admitted helping Ramiz Hodzic, Sedina Hodzic’s husband, send money, military uniforms, rifle scopes and other equipment to Abdullah Ramo Pazara and others overseas.
Pazara, who originally is from Bosnia like his co-defendants, lived in St. Louis County, became a U.S. citizen and then left in 2013 for Syria, where he rose to become an ISIS commander.
