(Courthouse News) A Colorado man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he had planned to join the Islamic State group.
Authorities arrested Davin Daniel Meyer on July 14 at Denver International Airport where he was booked on a plane traveling to Turkey. The 18-year-old resident of Castle Rock faces a single charge of attempting to support a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Prosecutors say Meyer unknowingly communicated with an FBI informant between November 2022 and July 2023. Meyer allegedly met with another FBI mole three times to discuss traveling to Iraq to join the designated terrorist group.
The complaint claims Meyer became radicalized through watching extremist videos online. When he was 17 years old, an acquaintance reported Meyer to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office for making “violent threats to act upon his radical Islamic beliefs.”
