(Knoxville News Sentinel) A federal magistrate judge on Monday withheld an immediate ruling on the fate of a 31-year-old Knoxville man accused of serving as an interpreter and media representative for ISIS.
Benjamin Alan Carpenter, who also uses the name Abu Hamza, was arrested last week on a federal charge of attempting to provide material support and resources to the terror group.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Debra Poplin is keeping him behind bars until she decides if he should be free pending trial.
Carpenter has been on the FBI’s watch list since at least 2015 and is on the terrorist no-fly list, testimony showed. He was indicted after federal authorities say he provided an English-language translation of an ISIS video to an FBI agent posing as a terrorist.
