WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A Washington, D.C., Metro Transit police officer was charged Wednesday with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State -- the first law enforcement officer accused under the federal government's terrorism law, the FBI said.
Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, Va., was arrested Wednesday morning while at Metropolitan Police Headquarters. According to an indictment filed in Alexandria federal court, Young sent gift cards worth $245 to someone he believed had traveled to Syria. The gift cards were for mobile messaging cards to be used by Islamic State fighters overseas to communicate.