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AFTER HIS MOTHER ASKED FOR HELP, FBI TERRORISM STING TARGETS MENTALLY ILL TEEN
She said two FBI informants βgroomedβ her son. They waited until the day after his 18th birthday to spring their trap.
The two paid undercover FBI informants who helped secure his arrest began communicating with Meyer βsoon after his 18th birthday,β according to the affidavit in the case β fostering his path to extremist ideology only once he could be legally prosecuted as an adult. One of the informants even traveled to meet with Meyer in person, three times, in his small Colorado hometown. They discussed the idea of going abroad to join a terrorist group β a possibility that Meyer had already been talking over with the other FBI operative online
Meyerβs case follows a long pattern of FBI sting operations targeting young people with histories of mental illness that make them vulnerable to manipulation β stings that often result in the teens being prosecuted for terrorism and receiving lengthy prison terms. Just last month, a lengthy FBI investigation targeting a 16-year-old with βbrain development issuesβ led to an arrest on terrorism charges shortly after he β like Meyer β became a legal adult
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/31/fbi-isis-sting-mentally-ill-teen/
AFTER HIS MOTHER ASKED FOR HELP, FBI TERRORISM STING TARGETS MENTALLY ILL TEEN
She said two FBI informants βgroomedβ her son. They waited until the day after his 18th birthday to spring their trap.
The two paid undercover FBI informants who helped secure his arrest began communicating with Meyer βsoon after his 18th birthday,β according to the affidavit in the case β fostering his path to extremist ideology only once he could be legally prosecuted as an adult. One of the informants even traveled to meet with Meyer in person, three times, in his small Colorado hometown. They discussed the idea of going abroad to join a terrorist group β a possibility that Meyer had already been talking over with the other FBI operative online
Meyerβs case follows a long pattern of FBI sting operations targeting young people with histories of mental illness that make them vulnerable to manipulation β stings that often result in the teens being prosecuted for terrorism and receiving lengthy prison terms. Just last month, a lengthy FBI investigation targeting a 16-year-old with βbrain development issuesβ led to an arrest on terrorism charges shortly after he β like Meyer β became a legal adult
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/31/fbi-isis-sting-mentally-ill-teen/