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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today that a resident of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with receiving a firearm and ammunition, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, including providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to provide
material support or resources to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

Twenty-one-year-old Jonathan Hunter Kramer received this charge and FBI agents
interdicted him this weekend as he returned to a hotel in possession of three 30-round capacity rifle magazines and five boxes of rifle ammunition.

The FBI executed search warrants, seized a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition from his hotel room, and arrested him outside of the Cranberry Park Hotel.

One subsequent investigation confirmed that Kramer had been using the online persona of “Hamza Al Rashid” who claimed affiliation with ISIS and put up an offer to share explosive manuals with others, as well as making an expression for his intent to prepare for his “mission” and that he was just missing a “weapon.”

The United States has requested detention of Kramer and that he be held without bond pending trial, because the U.S. asserts that he is a danger to the community.

Kramer waived a detention hearing during his initial appearance in court yesterday,  but requested a preliminary examination hearing on the complaint, which is scheduled for tomorrow.