A New York man was sentenced today to more than 16 years in prison for attempting to provide material support and resources to multiple designated foreign terrorist organizations including ISIS.
Elvis Redzepagic, 30, of Commack ,New York pleaded guilty in April 2021.
According to court documents, in early 2015, Redzepagic began communicating with an individual he believed to be both the commander of a battalion in Syria and a member of ISIS or the al-Nusrah Front, and made attempts to join that individual’s battalion to engage in violent jihad.
In July 2015, Redzepagic traveled to Turkey and made multiple unsuccessful attempts to cross the border into Syria. Unable to enter Syria from Turkey, Redzepagic traveled to Jordan in August 2016, but was stopped and deported by Jordanian authorities.
A search of the defendant’s laptop yielded a variety of ISIS-specific extremist propaganda, including ISIS nasheeds, or Islamist hymns, including the “ISIS Anthem” in English.
The FBI investigated the case. Valuable assistance was provided by the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the FBI Legal Attaché Office for Serbia, and the Government of Montenegro Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor’s Office and Special Police Unit.
(The U.S. Department of Justice assisted in this report.)
