Federal agents arrested Tarek Mehanna, 27, in Sudbury today on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Mehanna is an American-born citizen who attended the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy on Longwood Avenue in Boston, where his father is currently a faculty member. Mehanna allegedly conspired to attack a mall in order to "randomly shoot people," but he was unable to buy the weapons to carry out the attack.
One neighbor of Mehanna's told the Globe "I can’t believe there’s a terrorist living across the street," the street in question being a relatively affluent one.
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