Bolingbrook ISIS Recruit Gets In Trouble Again

BOLINGBROOK, IL - In 2016, 21-year-old Mohammed Hamzah Khan was sentenced in Chicago to 40 months in federal prison for trying to join ISIS. The Bolingbrook man was also put on 20 years of supervised release as part of the case. Now Khan has had another brush with the criminal justice system. The Chicago Tribune reported on Wednesday that Khan violated the conditions of his probation by utilizing a smart phone. The consequence of his actions is that Khan has been put in a halfway house, the Tribune reported.

In 2015, numerous media outlets reported that Khan's mother was angry at ISIS, accusing the terrorist organization of trying to recruit her other children as well.

"Leave our children alone," the Bolingbrook woman said, accusing ISIS and its self-proclaimed leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, of "brainwashing and recruiting of children through the use of social media and the Internet," the Chicago Tribune reported.

Patch previously reported that U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. imposed the 40-month prison term and ordered that it be followed by 20 years of intensive supervised release.

Among the special terms of supervised release, Khan was ordered to participate in a mental health treatment program; consent at any time to a search by a probation officer or designated law enforcement official of his home, property and electronic communication devices in his possession and control; attend violent extremism counseling and comply with the requirements of a computer monitoring program, which includes the installation of computer-monitoring software on all devices in Khan's possession and control that are capable of accessing the Internet.

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