Former Indiana Resident Charged With Providing Support To ISIS

ELKHART, IN — A former Elkhart resident has been charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. U.S. Justice Department officials reported Samantha Marie Elhassani, aka Samantha Sally, 32, was charged on Wednesday in a two count indictment, which claims ELhassani provided material support and resources to ISIS from the fall of 2014 through the summer of 2015 while she knew the group was a designated terrorist organization that has engaged in and was engaging in terrorism.

The woman is also charged with aiding and abetting two people in providing themselves as personnel to ISIS, in which officials claim she acquired tactical gear and provided money to support the two people who provided themselves as personnel for ISIS, officials said in a release.

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According to officials, just last month, Elhassani was transferred from the custody of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to U.S. law enforcement and charged with making false statements to the FBI in the Northern District of Indiana.

The charges were announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II for the Northern District of Indiana, and Special Agent in Charge Grant Mendenhall of the FBI’s Indianapolis Division, the division currently investigating the case.

The announcement of Elhassani's charges come just two days after Patch reported U.S. Department of Justice officials said a Crown Point man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for distributing information on the manufacturing and use of explosives and poisons in a terror attack.

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