Montreal Gazette

Police captain’s son arrested

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Prosecutor­s have arrested the son of a Boston police captain in a plot to commit terrorist acts on behalf of ISIL. Alexander Ciccolo of Adams, Mass., is accused in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday of receiving four guns on July 4 from a person co-operating with the Western Massachuse­tts Joint Terrorism Task Force. An FBI affidavit says Ciccolo, 23, had talked with the co-operating witness about his plans to commit acts inspired by ISIL, including setting off pressure cooker bombs at an unidentifi­ed university.

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