Ex-Cop Who Dressed as Nazi Guilty of Supporting ISIS
A Washington, D.C. area police officer who has been labeled both a terrorist sympathizer and white supremacist was convicted Monday of helping the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and obstructing justice.
A former officer for the D.C. Metro Transit Police Department, 38-year-old Nicholas Young was the first law enforcement officer ever to face terrorism charges after being caught last year providing gift cards to a man who prosecutors say he thought had joined ISIS in Syria but turned out to be an undercover informant in a FBI sting operation.
Along with attempted material support for terrorism, the jury at the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found Young guilty of obstruction of justice. Young attempted to deceive FBI investigators about what he thought was the informant’s destination in the Middle East and tried to cover for him by sending a text message to the man’s cell phone to make it appear he was on vacation in Turkey, rather than fighting for ISIS as Young believed, according to the Department of Justice.