CHICAGO (AP) – A federal judge has sentenced a suburban Chicago man to 12 years in prison for trying to help the Islamic State terrorist group by providing cellphones to be used as bomb detonators. Thirty-eight-year-old Joseph Jones of Zion was sentenced Wednesday after a jury convicted him in 2019 of conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization. Prosecutors sought a 17-year term while Jones’ attorneys sought a sentence of time served or nearly four years. Jones spoke during the hearing, saying, “I am not a terrorist. I never had any intention of doing anything involving this crime.”
