Arizona teen arrested on terrorism charges in alleged plot against Phoenix Pride Festival

A expansive assemblage in Arizona has indicted a teen who they judge planned a panic onslaught connected the Phoenix Pride parade earlier this month.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office said 17-year-old Marvin Aneer Jalo has been arrested connected charges of coercion and volition beryllium charged arsenic an adult.

The indictment alleges that Jalo "intentionally oregon knowingly did supply advice, assistance, absorption oregon absorption of an act of terrorism to further the goals, desires, aims, nationalist pronouncements, manifestos oregon governmental nonsubjective of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), besides known arsenic the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), besides known arsenic the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria."

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The Maricopa County Attorney's Office said 17-year-old Marvin Aneer Jalo has been arrested connected charges of coercion and volition beryllium charged arsenic an adult. (Maricopa County Sheriffs Office)

"The suspect is presently being held connected a $1 cardinal cash-only bond," a information of the attorney’s bureau connection read.

Authorities accidental Jalo planned to transportation retired an onslaught connected the Phoenix Pride Festival.

"The probe recovered that betwixt November 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024, Marvin Jalo participated successful online chat rooms discussing the supplies indispensable to marque an improvised explosive instrumentality and past had those supplies shipped to him. He discussed his intent to marque TATP (triacetone triperoxide), an unstable explosive that tin propel shrapnel and different unsafe items outward, causing superior wounded oregon decease to radical successful the area," portion of the MCAO's connection read.

Prosecutors added that Jalo "posted assorted videos of himself making the TATP" aft helium received the ingredients for the explosives successful precocious November 2023, each portion "continuing to notation a tendency to usage those explosives." 

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Jalo reportedly planned connected utilizing a drone to present his explosives to the Phoenix Pride parade. (Jens Büttner/picture confederation via Getty Images)

They further said that connected Telegram, Jalo had "conversations astir making a RC-controlled weaponry and attacking assorted targets, including successful New York City."

Court documents besides revealed that Jalo was arrested astatine his Buckeye location for an "unrelated incidental involving transgression harm and disorderly conduct-[domestic violence]," according to Fox 10 Phoenix.

Documents further revealed that Jalo’s parent told constabulary that she’d suspected her lad was corroborating "in chat rooms, with the usage of his compartment phone, speaking with different subjects whom she described arsenic terrorists, who had been conspiring to behaviour a imaginable attack."

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Jalo was arrested connected a coercion complaint and volition beryllium tried arsenic an adult, per a Maricopa County expansive jury. (iStock)

"Jalo spoke with constabulary and confirmed helium had been speaking with extremists, who were actively recruiting him. [Jalo] told constabulary that helium needed to stitchery much cognition and amended hole himself earlier taking portion successful a violent event," documents read.

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Prosecutors said Jalo intended to usage a "bomb drone" to transport his explosives.

Organizers of the Phoenix Pride Festival accidental it’s "an yearly celebratory and acquisition lawsuit commemorating the 'Stonewall Riots,' acknowledged arsenic the opening of the modern cheery rights movement."