PHOENIX — A teenager has been indicted on terrorism charges, accused of planning to bomb the Phoenix Pride Festival this past weekend, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office said Wednesday.
According to the announcement, 17-year-old Marvin Jalo had been involved in multiple online chat forums "discussing the supplies necessary to make an improvised explosive device and then had those supplies shipped to him" over the last year.
The teen reportedly expressed his plans to attack the recent Oct. 19-20 festival.
He was indicted Oct. 16 on one count of terrorism and one count of conspiracy to commit terrorism and will be tried as an adult.
In the indictment, Jalo was accused of furthering the goals of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a terrorist organization also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
“It takes a tremendous amount of cooperative work by law enforcement to develop a lead, locate a suspect, interrupt an attack, and make an arrest before a tragedy could happen. I am deeply grateful and immensely proud of our MCAO investigators and our law enforcement partners for their integral involvement in this case," County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said in the announcement.
Jalo is being held on a $1 million cash-only bond.
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