Associated Press
BOSTON — A Massachusetts state prison inmate has been indicted on a federal charge of threatening to kill President Barack Obama.
The Boston Globe reports that 31-year-old Alex Hernandez was indicted on Thursday. He’s scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Boston. His public defender says he will plead not guilty.
Federal agents launched an investigation March 2015 after Hernandez, an inmate at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, allegedly told another inmate he wanted to kill the president in a “lone-wolf style attack.”
Hernandez allegedly said he wanted to “become a mujahedeen,” or holy warrior, and get false travel documents to flee the country after the attack.
Authorities say Hernandez had images in his prison cell of late al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and Islamic State militants holding assault weapons.
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