Judge orders release of man who was accused of plotting IS-inspired truck attacks near Washington

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Judge orders release of man who was accused of plotting IS-inspired truck attacks near Washington

BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Updated 3:34 PM EDT, October 23, 2023

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered the release of a Maryland man who has been imprisoned for more than four years on charges that he plotted Islamic State group-inspired attacks at an airport and at a shopping and entertainment complex in the Washington, D.C., area.

Rondell Henry, 32, of Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty in August to attempting to perform an act of violence at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis agreed to sentence Henry to the jail time that he already has served since his March 2019 arrest.

Accepting terms recommended by both prosecutors and defense attorneys, the judge also sentenced Henry to lifetime supervised release with mandatory participation in a mental health treatment program.

It’s an unusual resolution for a highly unusual case,” Xinis said.

Henry, then 28, abandoned his plan to plow a stolen U-Haul van into pedestrians at the airport because he didn’t think the early-morning crowd was large enough, prosecutors said. ...

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[3Hotdogs]

1. I guess the judge figured he was no longer a threat, since his credit card expired and

he could no longer rent a U-Haul.