New York Man Arrested, Accused Of Planning Terrorist Plot For ISIS

A leader of the Islamic Center of Rochester responds to the recent arrest and arraignment of Emanuel Lutchman, the 25-year-old Rochester man accused of planning an ISIL-related attack for New Years Eve.

Obama was briefed on a possible terror threat targeting three major USA cities happening between Christmas and the New Year’s Eve holiday.

Lutchman was told to do everything he could while he was still in the US. ‘First he was a Blood, then he was a Crip, then he became a Muslim.

Police in Munich shut down two train stations citing a “serious, imminent threat” of a New Year’s Eve terror attack last night while federal authorities in Rochester, N.Y., announced the arrest of an ex-convict they say planned to carry out an attack at a bar.

‘I will take a life, I don’t have a problem with that, ‘ the court papers quoted Lutchman as saying.

The warning came about an hour before the city rang in the new year. Lutchman told the individual that he was in contact with an ISIS supporter overseas who told him that since New Year’s eve is approaching, he should do some “operations and kill” people to show his seriousness towards ISIS. During those conversations, Lutchman expressed strong support of the Islamic State and a desire to join it in Syria, according to a criminal complaint.

Earlier this month, Lutchman made contact with a man who called himself a “brother” of ISIL.

Undercover informers gathered information on Lutchman’s attack and provided it to authorities, federal agents said.

Just this past weekend, Lutchman sent a audio recording swearing his allegiance to ISIL.

On Monday, the document alleges, Lutchman met with a confidential source for the Justice Department.

The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Rochester Joint Terrorism Task Force and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett Harvey with the assistance of Trial Attorney Lawrence Schneider of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

Authorities did not identify the bar, but Page said his restaurant was the supposed target. “He’s a panhandler. A lot of businesses have asked him to leave, including myself”, he told WHAM.

He “caused more trouble than positive”, Page told the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester.

Lutchman was described in court papers as having a criminal history stretching back a decade, including a 2006 robbery conviction that led to a five-year prison sentence and arrests for mental health issues.

Lutchman’s former step-mother Charla Lutchman told Rochester’s Democrat & Chronicle newspaper “he wasn’t the same boy I knew after he got hit by a vehicle”.