(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) A former University of Pittsburgh student who has a “fascination with terrorism” will remain incarcerated pending trial on charges that he threatened an FBI agent.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Lanzillo ruled that Khaled Miah, 27, poses a potential threat to the community and a risk of flight.
“Anyone who seems to come within the defendant’s orbit … becomes subject to his surveillance and scrutiny,” Lanzillo said. “This is all with a backdrop of fascination with terrorism and terrorists that cannot be explained by academic interest.”
Miah is charged with interstate threatening communications, influencing a federal officer by threat and destruction of records in a federal investigation. Investigators said he surveilled the home of one of the FBI agents working his case repeatedly.
