A 30-year-old Maryland man named Mohamed Elshinawy was arrested and accused in a court hearing of receiving almost $9,000 from ISIS to finance a terrorist attack in the United States.
And that's just after a couple of Illinois men were arrested and charged with planning to attack a military armory with grenades.
Elshinawy was arrested Friday and charged this week in federal court with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization – specifically, ISIS.
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"According to the allegations in the complaint, Mohamed Elshinawy received money he believed was provided by ISIL in order to conduct an attack on U.S. soil," said the FBI, in a statement reported by CNN.
In the complaint, Elshinawy was accused of taking $8,700 via Western Union and PayPal for "nefarious purposes" from overseas individuals tied to ISIS, the FBI reported.
Authorities were first alerted to the suspect after he received $1,000 from a source in Egypt last July, and contacted him for a "noncustodial interview," CNN reported.
Elshinawy apparently admitted he took the money, but said he was only trying to scam the terror group.
"Elshinawy sought to portray himself as someone who was simply trying to scam some money from ISIL members," authorities said in the court complaint.
Meanwhile, this isn't the only suspected ISIS-tied plot on American soil that authorities have uncovered in recent times.
A former Illinois National Guard soldier just pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to ISIS.
Hasan Edmonds, 22, of Aurora, Illinois, gave his plea in a federal court in Chicago this week, just after his cousin, Jonas Edmonds, pleaded guilty to similar allegations.
Both wanted to unleash an attack on the Joliet Armory with assault rifles and grenades, CNS News reported. Hasan faces up to 30 years in prison; Jonas, up to 23 years. Each will be sentenced in early 2016.