A California man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for seeking to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group and wage holy war, authorities said.
Nicholas Michael Teausant, a 22-year-old convert to Islam, had pleaded guilty in December to a charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to a terror group. He was arrested in March 2014 near the Canadian border, while en route to Syria to join the terror network.
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