FBI: Pennsylvania man allegedly obtains rifle, ammunition in support of a terrorist attack<\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n
A 20-year-old man is facing a federal charge after allegedly obtaining a firearm and ammunition that investigators say he knew \u2014 or had reason to believe \u2014 would be used in support of a terror attack on behalf of ISIS.<\/p>\n
The criminal complaint says Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 20, left his home with a backpack Saturday, took an Uber to a Walmart store in Gibsonia, and allegedly obtained a rifle.<\/p>\n
Investigators say Kramer also bought a disposable phone, paid cash to check into a hotel and later visited a gun store.<\/p>\n
Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n In the complaint, the FBI said Kramer’s online posts, combined with his actions that day, helped establish probable cause for the federal charge.<\/p>\n The complaint lists the charge as “receipt or transfer of a firearm or ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such firearm or ammunition will be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism.”<\/p>\n The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI will discuss the arrest and the charges at a news conference Tuesday morning in Pittsburgh, a spokesman for the Department of Justice said.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. <\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FBI: Pennsylvania man allegedly obtains rifle, ammunition in support of a terrorist attack PITTSBURGH \u2014 A 20-year-old man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15887,29625,8467,3635,81097,7653,455,119152,2092,28,30,29,60292,119151,2920,115845,22279,99965],"class_list":["post-286095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-action","tag-ammunition","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-fbi","tag-federal-charge","tag-firearm","tag-investigator","tag-kramer","tag-more-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-receipt","tag-rifle","tag-support","tag-terrorist-attack","tag-transfer","tag-walmart-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}