A Howard County man talked about joining ISIS. Those chats landed him in jail on a terrorism charge.

Michael Teekaye first got on the FBI’s radar as a teenager in December 2019, when agents say he expressed an interest in extremist Islamic ideology on social media.

Teekaye said in his first interview with the FBI he didn’t want to join the Islamic State anymore, that his desire had waned after feeling used by the people he was talking with online. But in the following years, his behavior demonstrated he was taking “concrete steps” to leave the country and provide “material support to a terrorist organization,” according to an FBI criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

He was preparing to fly out of the country from Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport earlier this week when he was arrested.

Teekaye, a 21-year-old from Hanover, is being held without bond on a charge of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The federal public defender’s office has been appointed to represent him, but no attorney has made an appearance in the case as of Wednesday afternoon.

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