Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 of Mr Farook’s colleagues at a San Bernardino community centre in December.
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Bowdich said investigators were specifically interested in obtaining any photographic or other electronic evidence that could pinpoint their locations during the brief window of time shortly before their trail was picked up by authorities, prompting a pursuit that ended in the couple’s death later that afternoon.
Enrique Marquez Jr., the man accused of arming the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
Farook and Marquez started planning out terrorist attacks in Southern California, although they never fell through with their plans.
The charges came last month after Marquez was interrogated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 10 days following the San Bernardino terror attack earlier this month that claimed 14 lives.
Marquez was not charged in connection with the San Bernardino attack beyond the years-old purchase of the two assault-style rifles used in the shooting by Farook and Malik. Farook, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and Malik, a Pakistani native he married in Saudi Arabia in 2014, died in a shootout with police four hours after the massacre.
According to a complaint filed by prosecutors, Marquez bought two rifles for Farook as they prepared to carry out those attacks.
Marquez, who has been ordered held without bond, pleaded not guilty to the charges at an arraignment in federal court in Riverside, east of Los Angeles.
In 2005, Syed Farook met his new next door neighbor, Enrique Marquez.
Marquez, 24, has said little during two previous court appearances and has yet to enter a plea to counts that could send him to prison for as long as 50 years if he’s convicted of five counts in a federal indictment.
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Assistant U.S. attorneys Jay H. Robinson, who is deputy chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Terrorism and Export Crimes Section, Melanie Sartoris and Mieke B. Tarwater have been assigned to prosecute Marquez. It is believed the two did not leave the San Bernardino and Redlands regions. Officials say Marquez bought the weapons as a favor to Farook, who said he didn’t want to be on a gun registry. Those charges relate to an alleged sham marriage to a member of Farook’s extended family.
