Pennsylvania Man Charged in Plot to Assist ISIS in Terrorist Attack, Feds Say

A Pennsylvania man with a history of plotting a mass-casualty attack as a minor was charged Tuesday with obtaining a semiautomatic rifle to carry out an attack for ISIS after he discussed strategies to target non-Muslims, according to court documents.

Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, was arrested Sunday after agents descended on a hotel room in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. He was charged with receiving a firearm with the intention to be used in a felony or act of terrorism.

In a criminal complaint and probable cause affidavit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, federal prosecutors allege that Kramer, using a Telegram username @ShootIntoACrowd, “posted threatening statements alluding to an unidentified act to occur within three months as well as documents on how to make explosives, C4, and car bombs.”

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“The subject in this case was allegedly plotting a violent attack in support of ISIS — engaging with ISIS propaganda online, building attack concepts, and repeatedly expressing extremist rhetoric — all while acquiring weapons believed to be in preparation of the attack,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement Tuesday.

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