A Bowling Green man is facing a possible 50-years in prison after a federal jury in United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky found him guilty of conspiring with ISIS.
According to a news release, 34-year-old Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic of Bowling Green was found guilty of providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, otherwise known as ISIS, conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, and receiving military type training from ISIS.
According to public filings and the evidence presented at trial, on June 3, 2014, Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 34, of Bowling Green, Kentucky and two co-conspirators coordinated their departure from the United States, arriving separately in Istanbul, abandoning the rest of their purchased travel itineraries in order to purchase tickets to fly to Gaziantep, Turkey. Gaziantep is located near the Turkey-Syrian border, and from there, Ramic and the two co-conspirators crossed into Syria and joined ISIS. The evidence at trial established that after joining ISIS, Ramic attended an ISIS training camp, where he received military type training. A Photograph of Ramic, posted on social media, depicted him, among other things, wearing camouflage clothing and standing in front of a truck outfitted with an anti-aircraft gun and the ISIS flag.
After joining ISIS, Ramic and his co-conspirators remained in contact with each other and discussed, among other things, his use of an anti-aircraft weapon to shoot at planes. Ramic has been in federal custody since December 2021, after being deported to the United States from Turkey.
He is set to be sentenced in September, and he faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison, a fine of $750,000 and supervised release for life. There is no parole in the federal system.