(Detroit News) An Ypsilanti man indicted on gun charges who the FBI accused of being an Islamic State supporter was convicted Monday in the first federal, criminal jury verdict in Metro Detroit since the start of the pandemic.
Yousef Ramadan, 32, was convicted after less than an hour’s deliberation, four years after members of the FBI’s counterterrorism team blocked him from flying to the Middle East and arrested him after discovering several weapons in a storage unit.
The case raised national security questions after investigators searched his luggage at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and found pepper spray, knives, a stun gun, black masks, two-way radios, a gas mask, a tactical vest and photos of a homemade pipe bomb.
