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Prosecutors just issued this press release identifying the suspect as ex-U.S. Army infantryman Mark Steven Domingo, who is accused of planning an IED attack in Long Beach.
Criminal complaint does not appear to have been released yet. Follow my colleague @mxm_chi for updates.
Criminal complaint does not appear to have been released yet. Follow my colleague @mxm_chi for updates.
Notable from the press release: Prosecutors say that an undercover operative delivered inert devices to the suspect, which he "believed" to have been weapons of mass destruction.
There have been a string of terrorism cases involving FBI informants providing fake weapons to a suspect before disrupting the plot. The press release reads as similar to those cases.
These cases generally turn on whether the suspect had a "predisposition" to launch a terrorism attack.
Here, the suspect allegedly made that intention clear in an online video *before* meeting the informant.
Here, the suspect allegedly made that intention clear in an online video *before* meeting the informant.
