A former Gainesville resident and University of Florida student was charged with attempting to join and give money to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as the foreign terrorist organization ISIS, in a criminal complaint released Monday by the U.S. Attorney s office.
Mohamed Fathy Suliman, a 33-year-old U.S. citizen, attended UF for the fall 2005 semester and spring 2006 semester as a food science and human nutrition major, according to university spokeswoman Cynthia Roldan.
Roldan said UF officials would not comment but did cooperate with the investigation.
After leaving UF, Suliman racked up three traffic violations in Alachua County per the clerk of courts: cutting across traffic to avoid a control device in 2006, failure to obey a traffic control device in 2008 and a speeding ticket in 2009.