Queens Man Sentenced To Prison After Attempting To Help ISIS

QUEENS — A man from Ozone Park was sentenced to prison after he attempted to travel to Syria and help a foreign terrorist organization in 2017, according to Breon Peace, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Parveg Ahmed, 27, was sentenced to over 12 years in prison after the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force found Ahmed attempted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) after flying to Saudi Arabia in June 2017, prosecutors said.

The task force found Ahmed had listened to recordings of radical Islamic clerics after searching through his personal computer on July 2017, the U.S. attorney said.

Ahmed was deported to the U.S. on Aug. 28, 2017, where he was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and he pled a year later, Peace said.

A review of Ahmed’s electronic devices after his arrest found that he drafted messages about his plan to join ISIS in Syria, as well as farewell messages to his family members, prosecutors said.