Crime & Safety
Man Who Plotted To Attack Seattle Military Processing Station, Eyed JBLM To Be Sentenced
Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, aka Joseph Anthony Davis, was convicted of plotting to attack the Military Entrance Processing Station in South Seattle in 2011. He originally eyed Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
The man who was convicted of plotting to attack a Seattle military processing station in 2011 will be sentenced today.
Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, aka Joseph Anthony Davis, is scheduled for sentencing this morning.
According to the Department of Justice, Abdul-Latif and another man, Walli Mujahidh, aka Frederick Domingue, Jr., 32, of Los Angeles, obtained machine guns that they purchased and planned to use in an attack on the Military Entrance Processing Station, or MEPS, located on East Marginal Way in Seattle.
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Authorities arrested them in June 2011, before they could carry out the attack.
But the two men had been eyeing somewhere closer to the South Sound: Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
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"The defendants initially planned an attack on Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State, but later changed targets," according to a Justice Department press release. "The defendants intended to carry out their attack with both grenades and machine guns."
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A press conference is scheduled immediately following Monday's sentencing.
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