Erick Jamal Hendricks, 35, used social media networks to identify people to train to join ISIL, also known as ISIS, federal authorities said. He also appeared to have ties to a terrorist attack in Texas in 2015 at an event mocking prohibitions of making drawings of the prophet Mohammad. Mecklenburg Count Sheriff’s Department
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Aug. 4, 2016: A man who had lived in Charlotte about a month was arrested Thursday, accused of trying to recruit domestic terrorists for the Islamic State group and claiming to be planning a secret training camp on U.S. soil.

 

Erick Jamal Hendricks, 35, used social media networks to contact and recruit Americans for the cause of the Islamic State, also known as IS, ISIS and ISIL, federal authorities said, and he appeared to have ties to a 2015 attack at a Texas event mocking pictures of the prophet Muhammad.
Hendricks was obsessed with security while connecting on social media sites, unbeknownst that he’d been communicating with an FBI undercover operative and others who’d agreed to cooperate with investigators, according to an affidavit by Scott Hare, an FBI counter-terrorism agent.

 

In a March 2015 meeting in Baltimore with others he believed to be part of his ISIS ring, Hendricks said he had land in Arkansas where he could “get off the grid” and prepare for bloody battle with law enforcement.

 

Three months later, Hendricks told the FBI operative that he wanted to construct a training center “hidden in plain sight … Farm, house, garden, tunnels,” Hare said in the affidavit.

 

In communications with others, he claimed to have 10 operatives in the United States and hoped to raid military depots for weapons, authorities said.

 

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