Texas man charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS in federal terrorism case

A Texas antheral was charged successful national tribunal aft helium attempted to supply worldly enactment to ISIS done an undercover agent, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.

Midlothian, Texas nonmigratory John Michael Garza, Jr., 21, was charged with attempting to supply worldly enactment oregon resources to a designated overseas violent organization.

Speaking to Fox News Digital, FBI Director Kash Patel said that Garza "took factual steps toward convulsive jihad, fundraising for terrorists [and] gathering explosive components."

"The FBI identified the menace early, tracked it aggressively, and unopen it down earlier anyone was harmed," Patel said. "Keeping Americans harmless is our mission, and we’re executing it each day."

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Federal prosecutors accidental a Texas antheral was charged aft allegedly attempting to supply worldly enactment to ISIS done an undercover agent. (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

According to the DOJ, Garza brought bomb-making materials to a Dec. 22 gathering with an undercover cause posing arsenic an "ISIS brother."

"During the meeting, Garza described however to premix the components and offered to nonstop an instructional video explaining however to physique the bomb," the DOJ said. "Law enforcement agents arrested Garza soon aft helium near the meeting."

The DOJ besides said that Garza paid the undercover cause tiny amounts of cryptocurrency "believing that helium was supporting ISIS causes, including buying firearms and different materials."

Garza was flagged by authorities aft a New York City Police Department (NYPD) serviceman noticed that helium followed pro-ISIS accounts, including posting a remark connected a pro-ISIS post.

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The DOJ said the fishy offered to explicate however to premix explosive components and supply instructional materials. (Drew Angerer)

"When the NYPD undercover engaged with Garza connected societal media, Garza described himself arsenic a 21-year-old Mexican-American surviving successful Texas," the DOJ said.

"In their continuing conversations passim November and December, Garza shared that helium ascribed to the ISIS ideology and sent the undercover aggregate authoritative ISIS media releases."

Attorney General Pamela Bondi called the lawsuit a "testament to the unthinkable enactment of our national agents, who enactment tirelessly to prevention American lives." 

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The DOJ said the fishy was charged with attempting to supply worldly enactment to a overseas violent organization. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

"ISIS’s poisonous ideology indispensable beryllium ripped retired basal and stem — anyone who tries to perpetrate unit connected ISIS’s behalf volition beryllium found, arrested, and prosecuted," she said. "You cannot fell from us."