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NY ex-con charged with planning New Year’s Eve bar attack
Justice Department officials announced Thursday they had thwarted a Rochester man’s plans to kill New Year’s Eve participants in the name of ISIS at an upstate NY bar and restaurant.
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Emanuel L. Lutchman, 25, is being charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, which is designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.
Court records said Lutchman claimed to receive direction from an overseas ISIL member and planned to commit the attack. On Dec. 28, Lutchman allegedly met with another Federal Bureau of Investigation informant and told him that the ISIS member he was talking with overseas told him an attack on New Year’s Eve could help him get overseas to Syria. But he ultimately conceded he didn’t have money for such weapons and that they would have to use knives during the attack. One of the two reportedly dropped out; the other was cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, unbeknownst to Lutchman.
Then, just this past weekend, Lutchman sent a audio recording swearing his allegiance to ISIS.
Lutchman wanted to prove that he was worthy of ISIS participation, and, with an FBI informant, bought a machete, ski masks, zipties, knives and duct tape at a Walmart on Hudson Avenue, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Timothy Klapec.
Lutchman spent about five years in prison and had “previous state mental hygiene arrests”. A couple of days later, he made a video pledging support for IS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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After Lutchman told the overseas individual he hates it in the US and was ready to “give everything up” to join the Islamic State, the individual wrote online to Lutchman: “For now do wat u can over there”, the complaint said.