{"id":304072,"date":"2017-04-17T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/black-lives-matter-protesters-arrested-for-conspiring-to-send-detonators-to-isis\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:09:12","slug":"black-lives-matter-protesters-arrested-for-conspiring-to-send-detonators-to-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/black-lives-matter-protesters-arrested-for-conspiring-to-send-detonators-to-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 protesters arrested for conspiring to send detonators to ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/chicagoland-black-lives-matter-protester-arrested-conspiring-help-isis\/\"><strong>American Mirror<\/strong><\/a><br \/>April 14, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two suburban Chicago men and Black Lives Matter supporters were arrested by the FBI on Wednesday for conspiring to support ISIS after a 19-month investigation showed they plotted to send a recruit and cell phone detonators to the terrorist organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal officials arrested Edward Schimenti and Joseph Jones, both 35, around 5 a.m. Wednesday following a lengthy undercover investigation that involved four federal agents and a fifth person cooperating with the bust.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25454  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Schimenti-Jones-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Schimenti-Jones-1.jpg 750x, http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Schimenti-Jones-1-400x225.jpg 400x\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-25451\"\/>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/2-suburban-men-charged-with-supporting-islamic-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sun Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The feds allegedly led Jones and Schimenti to believe they had gained access to an ISIS network designed to smuggle new recruits into Syria.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The men allegedly helped the cooperator obtain cellphones meant to be used as detonators, introduced him to an undercover fed they believed could get him overseas, and then drove the cooperator to O\u2019Hare Airport to begin his journey on Friday. Once he left, the pair planned to deliver more cellphones via the cooperator\u2019s \u201caunt,\u201d records show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Federal officials were drawn after discovering radical social media posts supporting terrorist activities, including images of the two posing with the ISIS flag at Illinois Beach State Park in Zion, where they live, according to the 77 page criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>An undercover FBI agent approached Jones at the Zion Police Department in September 2015 when he came in to the station for an interview about a murdered friend, then built a relationship with the two to vet their radical views.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Investigators allege Schimenti was plotting to attack the Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, and bragged about watching ISIS videos every night, including some he allegedly shared with investigators that showed infidels beheaded by a child soldier, drown in a cage, and \u00a0blown to bits by a rocket-propelled grenade, according to the news site.<\/p>\n<p>When one&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/black-lives-matter-protesters-arrested-for-conspiring-to-send-detonators-to-isis.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American MirrorApril 14, 2017 Two suburban Chicago men and Black Lives Matter supporters were arrested by the FBI on Wednesday for conspiring to support ISIS after a 19-month investigation showed they plotted to send a recruit and cell phone detonators to the terrorist organization. Federal officials arrested Edward Schimenti and Joseph Jones, both 35, around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}