A Castle Rock man has been charged with terrorism-related crimes after attempting to board an international flight last week to join ISIS and serve as one of its fighters in Iraq, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Colorado.
DENVER – A young Castle Rock man has been charged with terrorism-related crimes after attempting to board an international flight last week to join the Islamic State and serve as one of its fighters in Iraq, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court of Colorado.
Meyer’s friend also told deputies that the suspect had “previously followed white supremacist ideology but began practicing Islam, possibly as early as October of 2020,” before he began searching out more radical content online in early 2021. The suspect’s behavior became more concerning when Meyer told his friend that he “wanted to travel to Syria and become a martyr, or if he did not make it to Syria, he wanted to kill people in the United States, including police and military members,” according to the probable cause statement, because he believed that the U.S. military were killing “his Muslim people” and he was willing to kill himself and others.
Soon after his 18th birthday, Meyer began talking to a person online whom he believed to be an ISIS facilitator, but who was in fact an undercover FBI agent. On Nov. 5, 2022, Meyer told the undercover FBI agent he had pledged his allegiance to ISIS and sent him a video a day later which purportedly showed his pledge to the terrorist organization, the probable cause statement shows.
At their second meeting in February, the undercover FBI agent asked Meyer if he had ever watched extremist videos before and if he had a problem with watching people die, to which Meyer replied that he had seen “mainly just beheadings with a sword and a knife,” before showing the undercover FBI agent a long video “that depicted beheadings, a man getting burned, and gun battles,” according to the complaint.
Nearly a month later, on July 14, Meyer checked in to the flight he had previously booked and “repeatedly expressed anxiety and hesitation” about his trip to the Middle East, but also “determination to go through with his plans,” arresting documents show.
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