{"id":287391,"date":"2026-09-16T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287391\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:34:12","slug":"pennsylvania-man-accused-of-planning-attack-in-support-of-isis-appears-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287391\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man accused of planning attack in support of ISIS appears in federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania man arrested by the FBI and accused of planning an attack in support of ISIS made an appearance in federal court and waived his preliminary hearing Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pennsylvania-man-fbi-planning-attack-isis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Kramer<\/a>, 21, appeared Wednesday at the is Joseph F. Weis, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Pittsburgh, shackled at his hands and feet and in a red jumpsuit. He was stoic and showed no emotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kramer is accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Syria and arming himself to carry out a mass casualty attack against the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said that Kramer planned to carry out an ISIS-inspired &#8220;mass casualty attack&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/butler-county-man-terrorism-related-charges-isis\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before an FBI investigation thwarted him<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richard Evanchec, special agent in charge for the FBI&#8217;s Pittsburgh field office, called the planned attack an &#8220;imminent threat of violence inspired by ISIS.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kramer was arrested Saturday outside of a hotel in Cranberry Township, around 25 miles north of Pittsburgh, with a rifle, ammunition and dozens of knives in his possession. The FBI said he had roughly 190 rounds of ammunition.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kdka-jonathan-kramer.png#.png\" alt=\"kdka-jonathan-kramer.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A photo shared with KDKA shows Jonathan Kramer at the hotel in Cranberry where he was arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA<\/p>\n<p>Kramer has been charged with one count of receipt or transfer of a firearm or ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe such firearm or ammunition will be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>A public defender representing Kramer has filed a motion to have redactions made to the affidavit related to his arrest, arguing that things pertaining to his client&#8217;s juvenile record are confidential.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A date for Kramer&#8217;s next court appearance has not been set. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania man arrested by the FBI and accused of planning an attack in support of ISIS made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4112,3635,61820,28,30,29,73,445],"class_list":["post-287391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-butler-county","tag-fbi","tag-isis","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287391","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=287391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}