{"id":153399,"date":"2026-01-28T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153399\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:28:08","slug":"long-beach-man-pleads-guilty-to-sending-money-to-isis-possessing-homemade-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153399\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach man pleads guilty to sending money to ISIS, possessing homemade bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Long Beach man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending payments to suspected members of ISIS and for illegally posessing a homemade bomb, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Mark Lorenzo Villanueva, 29, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to a U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office Central District of California <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/long-beach-man-pleads-guilty-sending-dozen-payments-suspected-isis-terrorists-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a>. Villanueva has been in custody since August. <\/p>\n<p>According to his plea agreement, Villanueva began messaging a person claiming to be an ISIS fighter living in Syria since February. The person told Villanueva how to send money to him overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva allegedly sent more than $1,600 knowing it would be spent on ammunition, weapons, and other supplies, authorities said. Villanueva also discussed conducting ISIS operations in the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement searched Villanueva\u2019s home in August and found a homemade bomb with large amounts of ball bearings and other objects, including nails, screws, and nuts, according to the release. The device was not federally registered as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>At the time Villanueva had the bomb, he had been convicted of felony stalking in September 2017 and was prohibited from possessing any firearm, according to the release. <\/p>\n<p>Villanueva is scheduled to be sentenced June 17 and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for trying to provide material support to a federal terrorist organization, and up to 15 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending payments to suspected members of ISIS and for illegally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7273,6577,53924,1629,75562,74894,7382,131,133,75082,132,4263,7656,25094,2901,5274,13184,72],"class_list":["post-153399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-august","tag-authority","tag-felon","tag-firearm","tag-homemade-bomb","tag-isis","tag-large-amount","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-man","tag-long-beach-news","tag-money","tag-person","tag-possession","tag-prison","tag-release","tag-villanueva","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}