(Global News) The arrest of a teenager accused of plotting a terrorist attack against the Ottawa Jewish community is the latest sign that Canada is struggling with the radicalization of youths. The minor, taken into custody on Friday night, was the second […]
(WMTW) Xavier Pelkey, a 19-year-old from Waterville, was sentenced Monday to the maximum 15 years in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for conspiring to provide material support to the terrorism group ISIS, the first case of its kind […]
(WLS) Authorities said they interrupted a terror plot against metro Chicago mosques and synagogues when they arrested a Maine teenager more than 1.5 years ago. In a rural Maine town, 1,200 miles from Chicago, Xavier Pelkey sat in his bedroom and devised […]
(WMTW) A Waterville teenager has pleaded guilty to a federal indictment that he conspired to provide material support to terrorists — Maine’s first adjudicated ISIS terrorism case. 19-year-old Xavier Pelkey entered his plea in person Friday morning in Bangor Federal Court before […]
(WLS) A Maine teenager has signed a plea agreement admitting he had weapons and Isis-inspired plans to attack Chicago-area Shia mosques last March. As part of the plan, 19-year-old Xavier Pelkey would rendezvous with underage accomplices from Chicago and Canada to stage […]
(Time) When police in Albuquerque announced that they were investigating whether the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in the city were connected — or even targeted — it set off panic from many in the Muslim community. Some isolated at home, […]
(WMTW) Federal prosecutors are offering new details about an alleged terrorist plot involving a Waterville, Maine, teenager arrested a month ago, and two unidentified juveniles in Illinois and Kentucky. A five-page declaration from Maine-based FBI agent Garret[t] Drew, unsealed Friday, depicts 18-year-old […]
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