Headline USA·2 hours ago·Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:27 PM

Teenage ISIS Supporter’s ‘Best Friend’ Was an FBI Informant, Court Hears

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Lawyers for a man arrested when he was a teenager for attempting to provide support to ISIS have asked a judge for a relatively lenient sentence on the grounds that FBI informants encouraged their client’s terroristic behavior. The defendant, Alexander Scott Mercurio, was arrested in April 2024 when he was 18

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