WASHINGTON — A Metro Transit Police officer was indicted on federal terrorism charges on Thursday.
Nicholas Young was fired by the police department in August after his arrest.
Young, 37, of Fairfax, Virginia, is charged with of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and obstruction of justice, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia said.
Young is accused of sending a few hundred dollars worth of gift card codes that could be used to pay for communications services to people he believed would use them to help the Islamic State group.
The obstruction of justice charge is tied to a text message sent to a confidential informant whom Young believed had traveled to Syria to join ISIS. In an attempt to deceive federal investigators, the message suggested that the informant had gone to Turkey for a vacation instead.
Young faces up to 60 years in federal prison if he would be convicted on the two charges.
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