{"id":326092,"date":"2026-08-20T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326092\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:14:10","slug":"albany-woman-charged-in-terror-bomb-plot-on-ny-state-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326092\/","title":{"rendered":"Albany woman charged in terror bomb plot on NY State Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Albany woman was charged Thursday with planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired terror bomb attack<\/a> on the New York State Capitol.<\/p>\n

Jessica Bowie, 35, told confidential federal informants that she wanted to buy bombs and weapons to carry out a terror attack<\/a> and kill as many lawmakers as possible in support of ISIS.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to destroy as much of the building as possible and kill the senators while they are meeting,\u201d Bowie said in one text message that was included in a federal criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

Bowie said she wanted to do something to \u201charm the enemies of God,\u201d<\/a> the complaint said, before planning to flee to the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The complaint says Bowie visited the state Capitola t least five times between July 21 and Aug. 9, where surveillance teams observed her photographing the area.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Bowie, who lives just two miles from the Capitol, was arrested on Wednesday after buying the suspected weapons to be used in the attack. She was expected to be arraigned later Thursday on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

She also praised the Sept. 11 terror attacks<\/a> and carried out a formal oath of allegiance to ISIS, officials said.<\/p>\n

Gov. Hochul praised police for busting Bowie and heading off the plot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the F.B.I. for leading this investigation and to the New York State Police for their work to apprehend this dangerous individual,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The feds say they first identified Bowie, who converted to Islam five years ago, as a potential terror plotter from her posts on social media.<\/p>\n

They organized a sting operation after Bowie told the informant she was ready to take action. They gave her $200 to buy nails for the bomb at local Home Depot and a gun. It\u2019s not clear if Bowie had the know how to actually carry out an attack.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate evidence that Bowie had any authentic ties to Islamic State, which once controlled vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Albany woman was charged Thursday with planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired terror bomb attack on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4241,31360,37675,13057,65437,426,9,24,55,54,56,11803,33409],"class_list":["post-326092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-albany","tag-bomb","tag-capitol","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-september-11","tag-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}