A Honduran man pled guilty in federal court Thursday to attempting to provide material support to ISIS by planning to blow up a Miami mall last year.
The Washington Examiner reports:
The 53-year-old man [Vicente Adolfo Solano] told an undercover government source in early 2017 that he was unhappy with the United States as a whole and wanted to carry out an attack in Miami. He later said he wanted to join ISIS, according to the court complaint.
Solano was arrested after telling two undercover FBI agents that he planned on blowing up a local mall last October. The man reportedly got ahold of a device that he thought was a bomb and attempted to arm it before carrying it into the shopping center, only to be arrested before he got in the door.
Solano is scheduled to be sentenced on May 30, where he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.
It’s not yet publicly known whether Solano is in the country legally, as the U.S. Attorney's Office of South Florida and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “told the Washington Examiner they could not comment on the suspect's legal status,” the report added.
Because apparently, it’s too much to ask whether the person who planned to blow a whole bunch of us up was actually here legally at the time. After all, we wouldn’t want to invade the wannabe-unibomber’s privacy or anything.