网上法庭记录显示，一名21岁的得克萨斯州男子被指控试图用炸弹部件和金钱支持“伊斯兰国”，他因国际恐怖主义罪被下令拘留候审。
约翰·迈克尔·加尔萨，来自米德兰，上周被联邦政府指控试图向指定的外国恐怖组织提供物质支持或资源。
法庭文件显示，在周二达拉斯联邦法院的拘留和初步听证会上，法官下令将加尔扎拘留候审，理由是涉嫌犯罪的性质，并认为被告的释放对社区构成了严重威胁。
美国地方法院法官布莱恩·麦凯(Brian McKay)在拘留令中写道，法院认为，政府“履行了自己的责任，证明任何监管条件都不会减轻加尔扎的行为及其支持被认定的外国恐怖组织的愿望所带来的风险”。
ABC新闻联系了加尔扎的律师进行评论，但没有立即得到回应。
根据联邦诉状，加尔扎是在12月22日的一次诱捕行动后被捕的。
起诉书称，调查始于10月中旬，当时一名卧底纽约市警察局雇员开始使用一个据称属于加尔扎的Instagram账户，“关注了几个支持“伊斯兰国”的Instagram账户，并在一个支持“伊斯兰国”的帖子上写了评论”。起诉书称，这名NYPD雇员将自己描绘成在伊拉克的“伊斯兰国”战士。
在接下来的几周内，加尔扎涉嫌向NYPD的卧底雇员发送““伊斯兰国”官方媒体发布”，一段描述自杀式汽车爆炸的视频和一段制造炸弹的教学视频，并“分享他归因于“伊斯兰国”意识形态，”司法部周一在宣布指控的新闻稿中说。
DOJ指控加尔扎在11月和12月向NYPD的卧底雇员发送“少量”加密货币，包括价值约20美元的几笔付款，据称他认为自己在支持“伊斯兰国”的事业，如购买枪支。
起诉书称，NYPD向美国联邦调查局达拉斯分部报告了这些在线交流。
起诉书称，12月22日，加尔扎据称带着制造炸弹的材料——一瓶丙酮、过氧化氢和硫酸——去达拉斯公园与一名据称是“伊斯兰国”“兄弟”的美国联邦调查局卧底特工会面。起诉书称，他被指控提供这些物品，然后向卧底特工发送如何制造炸弹的教学视频。
据《DOJ》报道，会议结束后不久，加尔扎在家中被拘留。如果罪名成立，他将面临联邦监狱20年的法定最高刑罚。
“必须阻止那些与暴力意识形态结盟的人在我国造成越来越多的伤害和破坏威胁，”美国德克萨斯州北区检察官瑞安·雷布尔德(Ryan Raybould)周一在一份声明中说。“这次行动只是一个例子，突出了警惕观察和迅速行动的必要性，以阻止本来可能是毁灭性的结果。”
Texas man accused of trying to support ISIS ordered held pending trial
A 21-year-old Texas man accused of trying to support ISIS with bomb components and money has been ordered held pending his trial on an international terrorism offense, online court records show.
John Michael Garza Jr., of Midlothian, was charged last week by federal complaint with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
During a detention and preliminary hearing in federal court in Dallas on Tuesday, the judge ordered Garza held pending trial, citing the nature of the alleged offense and finding that the defendant's release poses a serious danger to the community, court filings show.
The court found that the government "satisfied its burden to show that no conditions of supervision would mitigate the risk posed by Mr. Garza's conduct and his desire to support a designated foreign terrorist organization," U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian McKay wrote in the detention order.
ABC News has reached out to Garza's attorney for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Garza was arrested following a Dec. 22 sting operation, according to the federal complaint.
The investigation began in mid-October, when an undercover New York City Police Department employee began engaging with an Instagram account allegedly belonging to Garza that "followed several pro-ISIS Instagram accounts and wrote a comment on a pro-ISIS post," according to the complaint. The NYPD employee portrayed himself as an ISIS fighter in Iraq, according to the complaint.
Over the next several weeks, Garza allegedly sent the undercover NYPD employee "official ISIS media releases," a video depicting a suicide vehicle bombing and a bomb-making instructional video, and "shared that he ascribed to the ISIS ideology," the Justice Department said on Monday in a press release announcing the charge.
The DOJ accused Garza of sending "small sums" of cryptocurrency -- including several payments worth approximately $20, according to the complaint -- to the undercover NYPD employee in November and December, allegedly believing that he was supporting ISIS causes, such as buying firearms.
The NYPD reported the online communications to the FBI Dallas Division, according to the complaint.
On Dec. 22, Garza allegedly brought bomb-making materials -- a bottle of acetone, hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid -- to a meeting in a Dallas park with an undercover FBI agent purportedly believed to be an ISIS "brother," according to the complaint. He is accused of giving the items and then sending an instructional video on how to build a bomb to the undercover agent, according to the complaint.
Garza was taken into custody at his home shortly after the meeting, according to the DOJ. If convicted, he faces a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
"The increasing threats of harm and destruction in our country made by those aligned with violent ideologies must be stopped," Ryan Raybould, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said in a statement on Monday. "This operation is but one example highlighting the necessity of vigilant observation and swift action to halt what could have been a devastating outcome."
