The officials were not authorized to discuss the charges by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Enrique Marquez said he bought rifles for San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook so Farook could avoid a background check.
– From Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C.
The San Bernardino couple who opened fire at a holiday party in San Bernardino, killing 14 people, were buried in a traditional funeral guarded by the FBI, Reuters reports. “It was a pleasure”, he wrote, shortly before checking himself into a local mental health facility, according to the Post.
But when Marquez-who converted to Islam several years back-drank, he was prone to chatter, occasionally talking about terrorism, and even speaking vaguely of sleeper cells.
Lawmakers have also pressed for changes to the Visa Waiver Program, which allows many citizens from 38 countries to travel to the United States without being subjected to the in-person interview required to receive a visa.
Federal investigators have been reviewing information about other possible attack plans involving the San Bernardino shooters, based in part on interviews with Marquez, a federal law enforcement official recently told USA TODAY.
Marquez, 24, has been at the center of the extensive federal investigation of the massacre carried out by his former neighbor, Syed Rizwan Farook, and Farook’s Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik. Two days prior to the raid, Marquez posted a message to Facebook.
Television station KTLA reported that if Marquez knowingly bought the guns for Farook to use in an earlier attack, he could be charged with conspiracy to commit a terrorist act or conspiracy to commit murder.
Students in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Houston are heading to school Thursday, hours after school officials in those cities received threats similar to the ones received by Los Angeles and NY.
Marquez was a licensed security guard for several years, but his license expired at the end of 2014.
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Marquez has reportedly been cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation after they investigated his house, but NBC noted that he was radicalized alongside Farook years ago.
