{"id":34300,"date":"2026-01-03T03:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34300"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:04:35","slug":"us-arrests-teen-over-nye-attack-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34300","title":{"rendered":"US arrests teen over NYE attack plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An 18-year-old US man with a history of mental health issues was arrested on New Year&#8217;s Eve for allegedly planning a knife-and-hammer attack in the name of the Islamic State armed group, US authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A North Carolina judge ordered Christian Sturdivant, who was arrested on December 31, to remain in custody until a further hearing on January 7.<\/p>\n<p>Sturdivant was charged with providing material support to a &#8220;terrorist organization,&#8221; after undercover FBI agents fooled him into believing they were members of the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He pledged his allegiance to ISIS with that undercover agent, and he disclosed his plans to &#8216;do jihad&#8217; soon,&#8221; said federal prosecutor Russ Ferguson at a press conference, using another name for the group.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed to the second agent his plans to carry out a knife-and-hammer attack at a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in the town of Mint Hill on New Year&#8217;s Eve, Ferguson said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old US man with a history of mental health issues was arrested on New Year&#8217;s Eve for allegedly planning a knife-and-hammer attack in the name of the Islamic State armed group, US authorities said Friday. A North Carolina judge ordered Christian Sturdivant, who was arrested on December 31, to remain in custody until a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}