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Elshazly was sentenced to 92 months and lifetime supervised release after pleading guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden sentenced Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, of West Haven, Connecticut, to 92 months in prison and lifetime supervised release. The sentence follows his Nov. 30, 2022 guilty plea to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
A prison sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted count, not an open accusation. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden sentenced Ahmad Khalil Elshazly to 92 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. The judgment rests on the plea Elshazly entered on Nov. 30, 2022. A Justice Department account of later conduct in detention is not a second conviction.
On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden, in the District of Connecticut, sentenced Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 29, of West Haven, to 92 months in prison and lifetime supervised release. Elshazly, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2022, to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, ISIS. The Justice Department announced the sentence. A sentence after that plea is the judgment on the count he admitted.
The Justice Department said that in December 2019 Elshazly paid $500 believing he was arranging to be smuggled to Turkey and then to Syria. He was arrested on Dec. 15, 2019, in Stonington, Connecticut, expecting to board a boat. The department said he had created and administered a pro-ISIS Discord and had pledged bay'at. He has been detained since the arrest. Those are the facts the 2022 plea covered. The 92-month term and lifetime supervised release are the judgment on that plea.
The Justice Department also said that an August 2025 search of Elshazly's cell found a handwritten plan for an uprising. That statement describes conduct the department attributes to him while he was detained. It is not a separate conviction entered on Monday.
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