The FBI is investigating a man with an illegal military-style rifle who was found near the New York home of a well-known Iranian journalist.
security video that shows a large man on her porch trying to open a door. Alinejad said that this is the suspect arrested and charged with the gun violation, and that he had come to her Brooklyn home to kill her.Khalid Mehdiyev of Yonkers, New York, was arrested Thursday near the woman's residence by New York City police for allegedly driving on a suspended license, according to the affidavit filed Friday along with a criminal complaint.
The court document also claims that the vehicle Mehdiyev was using was issued a parking ticket near the journalist's home July 23. In an interview with agents after his arrest Mehdiyev said that he had borrowed the vehicle and that the case, gun and ammunition were not his, according to the affidavit.
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