Son Of Boston Marathon Bombing First Responder Pleads Guilty To Terrorism

By Tom Knighton

When I was a kid, growing up around police officers in Albany, Georgia, there was a trend people seemed to notice. I remember a friend of my father’s telling me that odds were good that I’d either end up a police officer myself or end up a criminal. That seemed to be the trend, and while I told him I wouldn’t be either–nothing against the police, but it’s something my father didn’t want me doing with my life–I also knew the trends.

For the son of a Boston police captain who was one of the first responders at the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, he took that trend and ramped it up to 11.

Yesterday, he pled guilty to charges of terrorism.

The son of a police captain who was one of the first responders at the scene of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing pleaded guilty Monday to plotting an ISIS-style attack.

Alexander Ciccolo faces 20 years in prison for plotting to use guns and homemade bombs to attack a college campus to support the Islamic State group. Sentencing has been scheduled for September.

Ciccolo was arrested in July 2015 after he received four guns he ordered from a person who …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms