A teen from New York, who was arrested for allegedly helping a college student plotting an Islamic State-style terror attack, entered a guilty plea to a non-terrorism charge. The court proceeding was held Friday at a federal court in Brooklyn, U.S. Attorney Robert Capers spokeswoman announced Monday.
Imran Rabbani, 17 years old, who was taken in police custody in June, pleaded guilty to non-terrorism charge of conspiring to impede federal officers, Yahoo News reported. Rabbani accepted a plea agreement, in which he will drop his court appeal on November ruling.
Richard Willstatter, his representing lawyer said, this will allow him "to be tried as adult" for his existing charge of conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State. The defendant was sentenced with six years of imprisonment on maximum for the said charge.
According to Reuters, Rabbani was among the six youths in New York and New Jersey arrested and charged following an ISIS supporters probe in 2015. Since the year 2014, over 80 people recorded to have been charged in U.S. federal cases, in connection to Islamic State, a Jihadist militant group gaining control of some of Iraq's and Syria's regions.
The defendant, who is now 18 years old allegedly, talked with a borough of Queens college student named, Munther Omar Saleh , who was plotting to make an "explosive device", and set off to metropolitan area of New York. Rabbani and Saleh were being monitored by the federal authorities on a surveillance car in June. The two left their vehicle and ran at the federal agents, on which they were arrested.
Cases of teens conspiring to support the Islamic State terrorist has been growing. The Islamic State group has claimed and behind the recent bombings in Brussels, which killed 31 people as well as the fatal attack on the French capital on November last year, killing 130 people.
