Bridget Reed Morawski
Reporting by Steve Burns
WASHINGTON — (WMAL) A Metro Transit Police Officer was arrested today for attempting to provide support to ISIS.
Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, Va. is a law enforcement officer with Metro, where he had worked since 2003. He is scheduled to appear this afternoon before a U.S. Magistrate on charges of attempting to provide material support to ISIS, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
The accused has interacted with undercover officers for several years. He was interviewed by law enforcement in September 2010 in connection to Zachary Chesser, who “plead guilty to attempting to provide material support for a designated foreign terrorist organization.”
Young allegedly traveled to Libya once, and attempted to travel there a second time, where he claimed to have worked with rebels to attempt to overthrow the Gaddafi regime. He subsequently was involved in 20 separate interactions with “an undercover agent who posed as a U.S military reservist of Middle Eastern descent who wanted to travel overseas to join ISIS.”
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