The defendant who had a scholarship to attend College as a wrestler decided that he wanted to become a bomb maker. He wanted to leave America and go to Syria to join a terrorist group. He developed bombs in his home.

It was in August 2023 when the FBI moved in in search to Windfield home, where Mouyib Abdul Rahman lived with his parents and his siblings. By then, the DA's office says agents had recovered bomb-making materials and evidence the 17-year-old who lived here wanted to join terror groups.

On that particular day, we were all shocked and surprised.

Residents say they watched, having no idea what agents had already learned. Only finding out today, a terror suspect was living near them.

He was ready to leave his family, his friends, his school, and his wrestling team. He had no intention of going to college in the United States. He knew that if he traveled to Syria, he would never be allowed to come back to the United States.

The DA's office says Rahman made small bombs and tested them in his backyard and nearby woods and had been working on bigger explosives he planned to set off in a park. The information released today comes after prosecutors say a judge ruled Rahman should be tried as an adult.

The judge who heard the facts of this case concluded that it was indeed his intention to construct a terrorist bomb and explode here in the United States.

Investigators say they searched Rahman's cell phone and found thousands of searches. Of note, they say, searches about the Pentagon, nuclear power facilities, parades and celebrations in the United States, as well as military bases. They say now he's being held in a state facility, and he is not to have any electronic devices. In Windfield, Diana Duranty, NBC 10 News. News.

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