By Leslie Holland
updated 5:28 PM EDT, Mon March 17, 2014![ALeqM5heivVXqcycFjmdFZulzMGJQATrCQ]()
(CNN) – A California man was arrested on terror charges early Monday morning near the Canadian border, according to the Department of Justice.In a press release issued Monday, the DOJ said 20-year-old Nicholas Teausant was arrested in Blaine, Washington, and was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
(CNN) – A California man was arrested on terror charges early Monday morning near the Canadian border, according to the Department of Justice.In a press release issued Monday, the DOJ said 20-year-old Nicholas Teausant was arrested in Blaine, Washington, and was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
According to the release, Teausant traveled to the Canadian border with the intent of continuing on to Syria to join the terrorist organization known as al Qaeda in Iraq.
On Teausant’s Facebook page, he goes by a second, Arabic, name, Ased abdur-Raheem.
According to the criminal complaint filed by the FBI, Teausant is a student at a community college in Stockton, California, and is a member of the U.S. Army National Guard, though he is in the process of being released by the Guard for not meeting the minimum qualifications.