(VOVworld) – 22-year-old Sajmir Alimehmeti of the Bronx, New York was arrested on Tuesday for attempting to provide material support to Islamic State.

Sajmir Alimehmeti was arrested in New York (Photo: rightwingnews.com)

Sajmir Alimehmeti was arrested at his Bronx residence where authorities found an IS flag, a martial arts weapon and combat-survival knives. They also found a passport wrapped in 2,400 dollars cash, a sum that the police said correlated with an amount Alimehmeti had claimed to have saved to travel to Syria to join Islamic State. Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York Police Department officials posing as Islamic State sympathizers began meeting with Alimehmeti after the United Kingdom twice denied him entry in 2014.During his second attempt, when he arrived at Heathrow Airport, authorities discovered numerous images of Islamic State flags and bomb attacks on his cellphone. Alimehmeti had applied in October for a new US passport, making false claims about losing his old one amid concerns the UK rejection stamps it carried would raise suspicions.