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Sean Andrew Duncan was arrested Friday during the raid. Court documents say Duncan tried to run and get rid of evidence he had destroyed when agents came to his home.
The court documents lay out a lengthy timeline of Duncan's alleged links to terrorism, including:
Investigators say moments before entering the residence, Duncan ran barefoot from the home through the back door. When FBI Agents yelled at him to stop, Duncan threw a plastic baggie overhead, which was later found to contain a memory chip inside a thumb drive that was broken into pieces, found in liquid with frothy white bubbles.
FBI investigators believe the thumb drive was destroyed in order to impede and obstruct the FBI's investigation.
Va. man being investigated during FBI raid for possible ties to ISIS, court documents show
The complaint documents are in the above link. They are an interesting read.
The court documents lay out a lengthy timeline of Duncan's alleged links to terrorism, including:
- In Feb. 2016, one of Duncan's relatives reported to the FBI that "Duncan had converted to Islam, may have been radicalized, and voiced his approval of westerners being beheaded in the Middle East," the documents say.
- Duncan and his wife were interviewed by the FBI after traveling to Turkey on Feb. 26, 2016. Duncan deleted his Facebook account two days after being interviewed by the FBI, according to the documents.
- Duncan allegedly had contact with a foreign detained ISIS supporter who told the FBI Duncan had expressed interest in joining ISIS and conducting an attack in the United States. The woman said Duncan gave her instructions on how to construct homemade bombs. Duncan would also share news articles with her from Amaq News, an ISIS news outlet, the documents said. The woman also told the FBI Duncan had asked her to go to Syria and to be his second wife.
- In Dec. 2017, the FBI found a Twitter account allegedly associated with Duncan's phone number. The Twitter handle was @DawlahtulIslaam, which roughly translates to "The Islamic State."
- In June 2017, Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, police gave the FBI a copy of Duncan's phone and the FBI found numerous searches for ISIS-related material, ISIS attacks, weapons, body armor, and surveillance and defense tactics, documents said. Alleghany County police had obtained a copy of his phone while investigating the death of Duncan's infant child. The cause of the child's death was inconclusive, documents said.
- FBI Raids Home of Virginia Man Who Wanted to Join ISIS: Docs
Investigators say moments before entering the residence, Duncan ran barefoot from the home through the back door. When FBI Agents yelled at him to stop, Duncan threw a plastic baggie overhead, which was later found to contain a memory chip inside a thumb drive that was broken into pieces, found in liquid with frothy white bubbles.
FBI investigators believe the thumb drive was destroyed in order to impede and obstruct the FBI's investigation.
Va. man being investigated during FBI raid for possible ties to ISIS, court documents show
The complaint documents are in the above link. They are an interesting read.
