Obama to visit San Bernardino families

Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, was charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists for those earlier plots with Syed Rizwan Farook. They envisioned halting traffic on the freeway with explosives then firing at trapped motorists, or tossing pipe bombs into a crowded cafeteria at Riverside City College.

By 2011, Farook and Marquez were spending most of their time at Farook’s home, reading, listening to lectures and watching videos “involving radical Islamic content”, investigators say.

They had met in 2004, in Farook’s garage and stayed in touch after Farook moved in 2012.

The complaint also said Farook and Marquez plotted a freeway shooting in 2012.

Enrique Marquez as seen in his Facebook profile image.

Marquez: “I don’t know. I lead multiple lives and I’m wondering when it’s all going to collapse…”

“Involved in terrorist plots, drugs, antisocial behavior, marriage, might go to prison for fraud, etc”, he said of himself on the social media site.

In this artist’s sketch, Enrique Marquez, centre, appears in federal court in Riverside, Calif., Thursday.

He will be arraigned on January 6, when he will enter a plea. He and Farook were friends for years and became family last year with a sister-in-law in common. He told medical personnel that his mother called him earlier telling him the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had been to her house asking about him. A federal criminal complaint said the men met in Farook’s garage – he was known to tinker with cars.

Worse still, the administration then went back and erased the dots we were diligently connecting.

The partial transcript of the 911 call also reveals that Marquez apparently mentioned suicide.

The dispatcher asks, “Why do you feel like you want to kill yourself?”

“No one really knows me”, the Facebook posting read.

A Riverside man has been arrested and charged with federal crimes in connection with this month’s mass shooting in San Bernardino.

Marquez was a friend and former neighbor of Farook, authorities say. According to court documents, Marquez spent ten days talking to the feds.

Federal prosecutors say Enrique Marquez was charged Thursday with conspiring with Syed Rizwan Farook to commit terrorism in 2011 and 2012. “Even though these plans were not carried out, Mr. Marquez’s criminal conduct deeply affected San Bernardino County, Southern California and the entire United States when the guns purchased by Marquez were used to kill 14 innocent people and wound many others”, Decker said.

Killed in the December 2 shooting were: Shannon Johnson, 45, of Los Angeles, 45; Tin Nguyen, 31, of Santa Ana; Sierra Clayborn, 27, of Moreno Valley; Yvette Velasco, 27, of Fontana; Aurora Godoy, 26, of San Jacinto; Damian Meins, 58, of Riverside; Robert Adams, 40, of Yucaipa; Isaac Amanios, 60, of Fontana; Bennetta Bet-Badal, 46, of Rialto; Harry Bowman, 46, of Upland; Juan Espinoza, 50, of Highland; Larry Kaufman, 42, of Rialto; Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, of Colton; and Michael Wetzel, 37, of Lake Arrowhead.

In 2014, state records showed, Marquez married a Russian woman who was the sister of Farook’s older brother’s wife. According to the affidavit, Marquez told investigators that he agreed to purchase the weapons because “his appearance was Caucasian, while Farook looked Middle-Eastern”.

In 2011, Anderson said, the two started plotting a set of attacks on Riverside Community College, which they both attended, and the 91 Freeway. Marquez told investigators that the planned attacks were meant to “maximize the number of casualties that could be inflicted”.

The pair took steps to carry out their plans, according to the complaint, by purchasing guns, ammunition and other gear.

But prosecutors said he was linked to the killings by the guns and bomb-making materials he bought, which the couple planned to detonate.

The arrest marks a major development in the San Bernardino case being investigated by authorities as a terrorist assault – the deadliest since the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.