The teen faces state felony charges including possessing weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy, arson and causing or risking a catastrophe.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said his office was required by law to charge the teen in juvenile court, but that prosecutors would seek to move his case into the adult system.
Although Krasner and the FBI announced the case at a news conference Monday, they kept many of the details of their investigation and the teen at its center under wraps, citing his age and the ongoing nature of the probe. The group, which has claimed affiliation with ISIS, has taken credit for a 2017 attack on a subway in St. Petersburg, Russia that killed 14 people and injures scores more as well as a suicide bombing on a Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan in 2016.
FBI agents surveilled him as he bought materials to make homemade bombs on Aug. 7, and on Aug. 8, U.S. Customs and Border Protection “provided records revealing 14 international shipments of military and tactical gear” to his house, prosecutors said in a statement. They added that he’d also taken steps toward assembling them into explosives and testing them in recent weeks.
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