BREAKING: Warwick man one of two charged with conspiring to help ISIS

By News Staff

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BOSTON (AP) _ A Warwick man at the center of a terror investigation who was arrested Thursday night has been charged with conspiring with two other men to commit violent act in support of ISIS.

Nicholas Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, was arrested Thursday. David Wright, of Everett, Massachusetts, was arrested last week.

Both men are charged with conspiring with Usaama Rahim, who was killed last week by terror investigators who had him under surveillance. Authorities say Rahim lunged at police with a military-style knife.

Rovinski and Wright were charged Friday with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.

The criminal complaint says the men initially planned to behead a political activist whom law enforcement officials have identified as blogger Pamela Geller. But the complaint says Rahim later decided he would attack police.

The complaint also states all three men met on May 31, when Wright and Rahim drove to Rhode Island, picked up Rovinski at his house, and drove to a Warwick beach to discuss their plot in secrecy.

Law enforcement officials swarmed Rovinski’s home just hours after Rahim was killed on June 2. State Police blocked parts of Aspinet Drive for over 24 hours as Rovinski was being questioned. A law enforcement presence has been outside Rovinski’s house around the clock until his arrest Thursday night.

Rovinski will be arraigned today at 2 p.m. in Boston Federal Court. 

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