Man who tried to sell guns, explosives indicted
An former officer in El Salvador’s army has been indicted in U.S. federal court in Alexandria for selling plastic explosives, an AK-47 automatic rifle, and other explosives to people he thought were members of a radical Colombian paramilitary group.
Hector Antonio Guillen-Martinez, 32, aka “el Capitan,” has been in custody since he was arrested in November at Washington Dulles International Airport on drug charges. The charges were part of a yearlong federal sting.
Guillen-Martinez thought he was selling the arms to members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The U.S. considers FARC a terrorist group.
Va. man gets 25 years for aiding terrorist group
The Bristow man who admitted to aiding the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Zachary A. Chesser, 21, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Alexandria. He pleaded guilty in October.
In his plea, Chesser admitted that he encouraged attacks on the creators of the television show “South Park” for mocking the prophet Muhammad on the program. He also solicited others to try to desensitize law enforcement by putting suspicious-looking, but harmless, packages in public places and tried to go to Somalia to join al-Shabaab.
Emily Babay
