(Philadelphia Magazine) On Monday, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and the FBI announced that police arrested a 17-year-old from West Philadelphia on Friday, charging him with crimes stemming from a terrorism investigation. I had been aware of the arrest since right after it happened, because I encountered major roadblocks around the 17-year-old’s house when I happened to be out running errands in his neighborhood. The FBI spent hours searching the property, removing box after box of evidence.
The home in question is the residence of Qawi Abdul-Rahman, a Center City criminal defense attorney who ran for Common Pleas Court judge this year but lost. When I reached him by phone on Sunday, Abdul-Rahman said he had no comment about the search of his home because it was an “open matter.”
