Queens Man and Accomplice Charged With Attempting to Provide Material Support
to Hizballah
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Preet Bharara, the U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.,
the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the FBI, announced
the filing of an indictment yesterday charging Patrick Nayyar and Conrad
Stanisclaus Mulholland with attempting to provide material support to
Hizballah, a designated foreign terrorist organization. The indictment also
charges Nayyar with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
On Sept. 24, 2009, Nayyar, a 46-year-old citizen of India who had been
residing illegally in the United States, was arrested at his residence in
Queens, N.Y., based on a criminal complaint charging him with possessing a
firearm and ammunition as an illegal alien. Later that day, Nayyar was
presented in Brooklyn federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan Azrack.
According to the indictment filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court and the
criminal complaint unsealed on Sept. 24, 2009:
Between July 2009 and September 2009, Nayyar and Mulholland agreed to provide
weapons, ammunition, and vehicles to Hizballah, a U.S.-designated foreign
terrorist organization based in Lebanon. During a series of meetings with a
confidential informant working with the FBI, who represented himself as
working for Hizballah, Nayyar and Mulholland agreed to sell guns, ammunition,
vehicles, bulletproof vests and night vision goggles to the confidential
informant. During these meetings, Nayyar and Mulholland provided the
confidential informant with a handgun, a box of ammunition and a pick-up
truck, believing that the confidential informant would deliver the items to
Hizballah in Lebanon.
The indictment filed yesterday charges Nayyar and Mulholland with four counts
based on their agreement to provide weapons, ammunition and vehicles to
Hizballah, and the provision of the various items to the confidential
informant. In addition, Nayyar is charged with possession of a firearm and
ammunition as an illegal alien.
Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland has not been arrested.
The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet. Nayyar is
expected to be arraigned on the charges in the indictment later today.
Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the FBI.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brendan R. McGuire and Sean Buckley are in charge of
the prosecution.
The charges contained in the complaint and the indictment are merely
accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven
guilty.
SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice
Yusill Scribner, Rebekah Carmichael, or Janice Oh, all of the Office of United
States Attorney Preet Bharara, Southern District of New York, +1-212-637-2600
