A Florida man has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for distributing Islamic terrorist propaganda videos online.
Jonathan Guerra Blanco, a Cuban-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was sentenced Jan. 28 in Miami federal court, according to court records.
He plead guilty to attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization in December 2020.
In 2019, federal investigators learned that Guerra Blanco was following instructions that the Islamic State terrorist group had widely distributed, according to court documents. He was directing adherents to publish propaganda, raise funds, recruit members and justify attacks on the United States.
Prosecutors said that Guerra Blanco had translated the group's materials into Spanish for his audience.
He also produced videos with the intent to use to recruit Spanish speakers to the Islamic State's cause and to terrorize citizens from Spain, according to officials.
Investigators said that many of the videos he produced glorified the terrorist group's violence and called for attacks on Spanish authorities.
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