Alleged Islamic State sympathizer arrested on terror charge
NEW YORK - Investigators found an Islamic State flag and a passport wrapped in $2,400 in cash when they arrested a young Bronx man Tuesday on charges that he tried to support the terror organization, a prosecutor said.
Sajmir Alimehmeti, a onetime plumbing assistant who has studied funeral services, was ordered held without bail after Assistant US Attorney Brendan Quigley argued that the US citizen was a flight risk and a danger to the community after assisting law enforcement undercover operatives who posed over the last half year as men eager to support the Islamic State.
Quigley said investigators found a passport Alimehmeti claimed he had lost wrapped in cash when he was arrested in an early morning raid at his apartment. The flag, he said, was in the man's apartment, too.
