Charged: March 18, 2007
District
District of Connecticut
Charges
- Material support
- Espionage
Found Guilty: March 02, 2008
Sentenced: March 31, 2009
Supervised Release
3 years
Released: January 29, 2016
Details
Hassan Abu-Jihaad was a Navy signalman who disclosed the location of USS Benfold in an online forum. Authorities taped a phone conversation between Abu-Jihaad and an informant, in which Abu-Jihaad spoke in code regarding the movement of naval ships. Abu-Jihaad was a former roommate of Derrick Shareef, who conspired to attack an Illinois shopping mall and was caught in an FBI sting.