Overview

• Since February, Akhtar communicated online with someone he believed was an ISIS member, voicing support for jihad and a desire to travel overseas to fight.
• In April, he transferred funds to the law enforcement–controlled contact, who told him those payments procured firearms for ISIS.
• On June 23, Akhtar met the undercover agent and provided clothing, binoculars, $400 in cash, two loaded guns and six magazines before swearing a bayat pledge of loyalty.
• He has been charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
• The FBI’s Sacramento and New York field offices, assisted by the New York City Police Department, are leading the ongoing investigation under the Justice Department’s counterterrorism division.