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A Florida man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after posing as a jihadist online and planning to blow up a building.
\nJoshua Ryne Goldberg had a number of unusual online personas, and reportedly became fixated on stoking fears of a terror attack in Australia.
\nLaw enforcement began investigating Goldberg for his online discussions prior to a 2015 shooting in Garland, Texas.
\nShortly before his arrest, Goldberg instructed an FBI informant to place a bomb at a firefighter’s memorial event for first responders killed in the September 11th attacks in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n
A Florida man was sentenced to 10 years in a federal medical prison facility, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, after posing online as a jihadist and planning to blow up a building. <\/p>\n
Joshua Ryne Goldberg, 23, of Orange Park, Florida, pled guilty in December to a number of charges including attempting to destroy a building with explosives. Goldberg, who is on the Autism spectrum, lived with his parents and spent 14 to 20 hours a day online posing as different personas on forums, SBS<\/a> reported, citing the hearing at the US District Court in Jacksonville. According to the report, Goldberg suffered depression and became fixated on stoking fears of a terror attack in Australia. See the rest of the story at Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n NOW WATCH: Watch the moment Trump and Kim Jong Un share a historic handshake at Singapore summit<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/p>\n A tourist tried to pat a wild lion on the head \u2014 and it’s safe to say the lion was not impressed<\/a>‘It’s heartbreaking’: A Texas landowner who sees immigrants cross through her property regularly says she’s horrified by Trump’s border policies<\/a>I flew domestic first class on American Airlines to see how it compares with coach \u2014 here’s what I discovered<\/a><\/p>\n SEE ALSO: A Florida man impersonated a Saudi prince for decades, cheating investors out of millions of dollars<\/a><\/p>\n<\/img><\/a>
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