Sacramento Man Indicted For Making False Statements Involving International Terrorism

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A Sacramento man was indicted by a federal grand jury with one count of making false statements involving international terrorism on Thursday.

Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab was arrested on Jan. 7 as federal agents alleged he lied to federal agents about traveling to the Middle East, where he is believed to have associated with members of a terrorist organization.

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The indictment states that an unnamed witness told the grand jury Al-Jayab had solicited that person in hopes of becoming a member of a terrorist organization.

Al-Jayab told federal agents that between November of 2013 and January of 2014 he went to Turkey to visit his grandmother. Prosecutors in the indictment said his statements were false, because they had evidence he went to Turkey to seek passage to Syria to train with a terrorist group.

The indictment also goes on to accuse Al-Jayab of making false statements involving helping in the injury or death or a person, though he was not charged in the injury of death of that unnamed person.

If he is convicted, prosecutors say he faces up to eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.