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NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. Army private from Kentucky who was devoted to a violent extremist group seeking to erode or destroy Western civilization was sentenced to the maximum 45 years in prison Friday for plotting a murderous terrorist attack on his paratrooper unit.
Ethan Melzer, the former Army private described as "the enemy within" because he plotted with a neo-Nazi group to kill fellow soldiers, was sentenced to 45 years.
A former Army soldier was sentenced to 45 years in prison for plotting with a neo-Nazi, Satanist, pro-jihadi group to attack his own military unit.
Ethan Phelan Melzer, who was a private assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vicenza, Italy, planned a jihadist attack on his Army unit in the days leading up to a deployment to Turkey, according to court documents.
Prosecutors said he planned an attack on his own U.S. Army unit, sharing sensitive details about it with a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and pro-jihadist group.