A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted a suburban kid for allegedly planning to join Islamic State extremists in Syria as the world watched a terrorist take-down halfway across the continent in France.
Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, of Bolingbrook, was indicted on a single count of conspiring to give material support to ISIS.
The I-Team learned that the charge was handed down by a grand jury on Thursday night, but that it was only unsealed on Friday morning.
The Khan case and the happenings in France reflect a larger concern of law enforcement: radical sympathizers from Western nations who fly overseas for jihad training and, at times, actual combat. No connection has been claimed to the killings and siege in Paris this week.
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The indictment alleges that between September 2019 and January 2020, Willis trafficked a 16-year-old girl and forced her to perform commercial sex acts.
It is further alleged that between November 2019 and January 2020, Willis made three sexually explicit recordings of the victim.
A person who knowingly and willfully subjects a minor to sexual trafficking faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and maybe life. The penalties for making child pornography can range from 15 to 30 years in prison.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio David M. DeVillers, FBI Cincinnati Division Special Agent in Charge Chris Hoffman, Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil, and Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters made the announcement.
To represent the government, the United States has hired Assistant US Attorney Kyle J. Healey. A criminal indictment contains just allegations, and a person is innocent unless proven guilty.
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According to the indictment, the Milwaukee Kings are a criminal organization whose members and associates committed acts of violence, including murder and assault, in order to expand the gang’s territory on Chicago’s North Side.
According to the indictment, members of the gang used acts of violence and threats of violence to terrorize other gang members and innocent bystanders.
It is stressed that an indictment is not proof of guilt. A fair trial must be provided to the defendant, who is deemed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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The minimum term for murder in aid of racketeering is life in prison, while the maximum sentence is death. The Court is obligated to impose sentences that are reasonable under federal law and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, which serve as guidelines.
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The Legal Aid Society, which is representing Bickford, issued a statement earlier this week, saying, “The juvenile court system has never come into touch with Trevor Bickford before.
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Although it is a long-standing court rule that an arraignment take place within 24 hours after arrest, Mr. Bickford waited nearly four days in NYPD custody before being transferred to Bellevue Hospital for his arraignment earlier today.
We have just gotten the initial discovery from the District Attorney’s office, and after reviewing and investigating it thoroughly, we will have more to say about this matter.
For the time being, we ask that the public not jump to any conclusions and that the family of our client be given some privacy.”
The residence of Bickford in Wells, Maine, was searched by federal authorities throughout the course of the previous weekend.
The investigation team speculated that he had become radicalized by Islamic extremists online in the recent months.
Authorities in New York state that a diary was discovered in Bickford’s rucksack during his detention. The police officers are on the mend.
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The FBI discovered journals and letters written by the teens after Khan’s detention, in which they expressed their anger at the United States-led bombing missions in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State.
Since his arrest, he has been detained in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago (MCC-Chicago) and is being held without bond.
Chicago defense attorney Thomas Durkin, who is working on other cases with comparable facts in the Northern District of Illinois, is on his side.
Khan was raised in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook to the southwest of the city. He spent a year studying at Benedictine University in Lisle. The teen will be arraigned before Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox in federal court on Tuesday, January 13 at 9 a.m.
