Friend who supplied rifles to San Bernardino terrorists agrees to plead guilty
Source: LA Times
The man accused of buying two rifles used in the 2015 San Bernardino terror attacks has agreed to plead guilty in connection with the purchase of the weapons as well as an aborted plot to open fire on the 91 Freeway and the campus of a Riverside college, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
Enrique Marquez Jr., a friend of gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, was arrested shortly after the Dec. 2, 2015, attacks that left 14 dead and 22 wounded.
While he was not accused of taking part in the shooting, Marquez, 25, emerged as a central figure in the investigation after federal agents began to probe his ties to Farook.
The onetime neighbors had been close friends and began attending a mosque together in 2010. Even as Marquez told friends he hoped to enlist in the U.S. Navy, prosecutors say, he and Farook were secretly amassing weapons, discussing radical Islam and plotting terrorist attacks in California.
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