Mufid Elfgeeh (Inset: 2014 handout via New York’s Monroe County Sheriff’s Office; arrest photo via AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Carlos Ortiz)
A former New York pizza shop owner who authorities said was one of the first Islamic State group recruiters ever captured in the U.S. is accused of trying to kill an inmate in a Kentucky prison where he was serving his 22-year sentence for attempting to recruit fighters and raise funds for the terrorist group, authorities said.
Mufid Elfgeeh, 39, allegedly tried to kill someone identified in an indictment as A.J.W. at a federal penitentiary in Kentucky on Jan. 15, 2019. No further details were revealed about the accusation in the one-page indictment filed last week. He’s currently being held at a high-security lockup in Pennsylvania, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
