NYPD anti-terrorism agents at the Port Authority, December 2017.
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Fareed Mumuni, an aspiring to join the ISIS terrorist movement, was resentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to assassinate an FBI agent. who went to his house to arrest him in 2015.
Tuesday’s new measure elevated the original 17-year sentence issued in April 2018after an appeals court ruled that the previous sentence had been too lenient, reported New York Post.
Mumuni, now 27 years old, repeatedly stabbed to Special Agent Kevin Coughlin as he and other officers were searching his apartment in Staten Island (NYC) in June 2015. Almost two years later pleaded guilty in february 2017 of conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS, assault, attack, and attempted murder of federal officials.
Coughlin he saved his life thanks to the metal plates on his uniform. Mumuni “came downstairs intending to kill one of us“said the victim in federal court in Brooklyn, during the trial in 2018. “I would like to apologize to the court and to the special agents who came to my house that day,” Mumuni said before being sentenced for the first time that year..
Prosecutors had called for Mumuni to receive 85 years in prison, which defense attorney Anthony Ricco opposed, describing him as a victim of ISIS recruiters.
“It is an experience that continues to affect me and my family,” Coughlin testified. “My wife still gets upset when she thinks about how close she came to being a widow and a single mother.”
Mumuni, once suspected of stabbing a 9-year-old boy on Staten Island as part of a horror “audition,” said he had been rehabbing behind bars, when appealing to court.
In an opinion, 2nd Circuit Court Judge José A. Cabranes said that the original sentence by Judge Margo Brodie had been “shockingly low” and that it could damage the US justice system.
In April 2021, Akayed Ullah was sentenced to life imprisonment because on December 11, 2017 a pipe bomb detonated that he was carrying on his body walking in a subway tunnel under the bus terminal of the Times Square Port Authority, NYC.
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