Nicholas Young, 38, the first US police officer charged with attempting to support ISIS, has been convicted of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization, reports the Associated Press.
Young, a former transit cop with the capital region’s transit system, bought gift cards and gave them to a person he thought was a representative of the Islamic State, but the person was an uncover FBI agent. Young had been under surveillance by the FBI since 2010, and has anti-Semitic and Nazi sympathies in addition to his ISIS ones.
The sentencing will be held on February 28, 2018. Young faces up to 60 years for his crime.
