(Cleveland.com) A northwest Ohio resident who admitted plotting a mass shooting at a Toledo-area synagogue to show his allegiance to ISIS was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.
Damon M. Joseph, aka Abdullah Ali Yusuf, 23, of Holland, Ohio, was arrested on Dec. 7, 2018, moments after he grabbed a duffel bag that contained two semi-automatic rifles from an undercover FBI agent’s car. The weapons had been disabled by FBI agents. He pleaded guilty in May to charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization and attempting to commit a hate crime.
Federal agents began monitoring Joseph after he posted photographs of weapons and various messages in support of ISIS on his social media accounts, as well as a photograph originally distributed by the media wing of ISIS.
