Muhammed Al-Azhari biography: 13 things about Tampa, Florida man 

Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari is a resident of Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. He is a U.S. citizen.

Al-Azhari owned an iPhone 6s. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 2015, he was convicted in Saudi Arabia of advocating for Jaysh al-Islam, an armed Islamist group then participating in the conflict in Syria.
2. In 2018, he was released from prison in Saudi Arabia after a conviction and sentence for supporting terrorism in Syria. Upon his arrival to the U.S. in December 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating him for potentially providing material support to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, which was designated as a foreign terrorist organization under federal law.
3. In May 2019, he moved from Tampa to his grandmother’s residence in Riverside, California, USA. That month, he started consuming ISIS propaganda and speaking favorably about ISIS. He eventually pledged his allegiance to the organization through an Islamic oath of allegiance called bay’ah. In June 2019, he returned to Tampa.
4. On August 14, 2019, he was in a messaging application chat room that provided videos and information containing ISIS propaganda from Syria, an image of a dead jihadi and content involving Islamic State’s first caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. On August 30, 2019, he accessed a messaging application chat room that provided videos and information of a lion roaring, ISIS attacks and killings, a photo of deceased ISIS fighter Abu Muhammad Al Adnani and a poem glorifying martyrs who had died fighting for Allah. On September 19, 2019, he accessed a messaging application chat room that provided multiple YouTube links for training videos about street fighting and urban warfare. On September 28, 2019, he accessed a messaging application chat room that provided multiple JustPaste.it links and encyclopedias for poisons, explosives and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
5. On October 7, 2019, he accessed a messaging application chat room that posted an article about IEDs, articles on how to obtain ricin and poisonous explosive devices, articles on how to obtain ricin and articles and videos on how to make a bomb, phosphate, hypochlorite sodium chlorine, hypochlorite sodium chlorox, trinitrotoluene and explosive properties. On October 10, 2019, he accessed a messaging application chat room that provided a link for a downloadable portable document format file titled “How to make a bomb at home” and a guide called “Mujahid guide in forensic research and 4 easy ways to make a suicide belt.”
6. On December 22, 2019, he accessed a messaging application chat room that provided news and media for jihadists and ISIS.
7. On February 8, 2020, he captured a screenshot of the S2 Institute, a training school for firearms and self-defense in Tampa. On February 28, 2020, he used Google Maps to view the Landau Seminole Hard Rock, which is part of a hotel and casino in Tampa. On February 29, 2020, he used Google Translate to translate the words polytheist and infidel from English to Arabic.
8. On March 8, 2020, he used Google Maps to search for Bayshore Boulevard, a major road and pedestrian promenade in Tampa. On March 23, 2020, he translated the words concert houses from English to Arabic via Google Translate. On March 29, 2020, he used Google Maps to search for Muslim Cemetery of South Florida in Hialeah, Florida where ISIS supporter Omar Mateen is buried. On March 30, 2020, he entered Shoot Straight Tampa in Tampa and bought two boxes of 9mm ammunition.
9. In April 2020, he began to plan to carry out an attack in support of ISIS, acquire multiple firearm and research and scout potential locations for an attack in Tampa. He started interacting with an FBI undercover employee and a confidential human source. He asked the confidential human source to obtain a Glock pistol and an unregistered silencer. On April 20, 2020, he bought a PF940v2 polymer pistol frame and jig kit from an eBay user located in Texas, USA.
10. On May 1, 2020, Tampa Police Department officers arrested him for unlicensed carrying of a concealed firearm after he tried to enter a Home Depot store in Tampa with a derringer-style pistol on his person. He was detained overnight and as a condition of his release, the state court issued an order prohibiting him from possessing any firearms. On May 24, 2020, he took possession of a gun and silencer and was arrested by FBI agents. That day, U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli signed a criminal complaint filed against him by an FBI special agent.
11. In January 2022, he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial. In November 2022, a judge decided that his competence had been restored after treatment at a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, USA.
12. On February 23, 2023, he pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. 
13. He was 26 years old when U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber sentenced him on July 13, 2023 to 18 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release. The court ordered him to forfeit certain assets that are traceable to proceeds of his offense and various items of property involved in the offense.