In June 2023, Bridges pled guilty in U.S. District Court to the terrorism charges.
STOW, Ohio - A 24-year-old man from Stow was sentenced to 14 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military service members.Court documents show Bridges attempted to assist the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham to attack and kill U.S. soldiers in the Middle East.
In 2020, Bridges began communicating with an FBI employee who was posing as an ISIS supporter with contact to ISIS fighters in the Middle East.Court documents show Bridges expressed the desire to aid ISIS and eventually provided information to aid fighters on how to attack U.S. military members in the Middle East.
Among other things, BRIDGES diagrammed specific military maneuvers intended to help ISIS fighters maximize the lethality of attacks on U.S. troops. BRIDGES further provided advice about the best way to fortify an ISIS encampment to repel an attack by U.S. Special Forces, including by wiring certain buildings with explosives to kill the U.S. troops.
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