Son of a Boston police captain arrested for planning terrorist activities

A 23-year-old youth Alexander Ciccolo of Boston was held on 4 July for unlawful receipt of two Glock handguns, a Colt AR-15 rifle and a SigArms high-powered rifle from an undercover witness who was working with terrorism investigators.
The youth is the son of a Boston police captain and has been arrested for allegedly planning to detonate pressure-cooker bombs at a US university in a terror plot that had been inspired by the Islamic State.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 15 July 2015.

It seems the father Captain Robert Ciccolo had alerted the FBI last year that his son had a long history of mental illness and was talking about joining IS. The youth was, then, put under surveillance by the FBI based on some of his posts on social media. Subsequently, he was watched as he was buying at least one pressure cooker at a Walmart store in North Adams, Massachusetts.
He had, reportedly, confided to an informant that he wanted to build bombs similar to those used in the attacks on the 2013 Boston Marathon, in which three people died and 264 others were injured. Moreover, partially built bombs were found in his apartment.
These incendiary devices or bombs contained shredded Styrofoam soaked in motor oil.
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