--- description: A man who had previously been charged with providing support to Al-Qaeda was indicted for soliciting the murder of the judge in his case. title: Man Facing Terrorism Charges Indicted for Plot to Murder Judge in His Case image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9245c0edb847ce09/69889aed524fc02c60df8a30/yahya_farooq_mohammad_070616.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Man Facing Terrorism Charges Indicted for Plot to Murder Judge in His Case by [Emma Ockerman](/author/emma-ockerman/) ## Emma Ockerman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 6, 2016 11:40 PM CUT  Lucas County Sheriff's Office by [Emma Ockerman](/author/emma-ockerman/) ## Emma Ockerman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 6, 2016 11:40 PM CUT A 37-year-old man who had previously been charged with providing support to Al-Qaeda was handed a three-count indictment in Toledo, Ohio on Wednesday for soliciting the murder of the federal judge presiding over his case. Yahya Farooq Mohammad was charged with attempted first-degree murder of a federal officer, solicitation to commit a crime of violence and use of interstate commerce facilities in commission of murder for hire, according to a news release [from the U.S. Department of Justice.](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-facing-al-qaeda-terrorism-charges-indicted-plotting-murder-federal-judge-presiding-over "undefined") He was accused of soliciting someone to kidnap and murder U.S. District Court Judge Jack Zouhary after he told an inmate at a county jail in April that he was willing to pay $15,000 to carry out the act, [the Toledo _Blade_ reports. ](http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/2016/07/06/A-man-charged-with-providing-financial-support-to-al-Qaeda-was-indicted-today-on-charges-he-tried-to-arrange-murder-of-federal-judge-in-Toledo.html "undefined") Farooq Mohammad was in jail[ for a case in which he was indicted last year,](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-men-charged-providing-material-support-al-qaeda-arabian-peninsula "undefined") involving charges for conspiring [with three men to travel to Yemen in 2009 ](http://time.com/3674778/yemen-al-qaeda/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined")to give thousands of dollars in support of jihad against U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. That case still remains pending in the U.S. District Court of Northern Ohio. “According to the charges in the indictment, this defendant not only attempted to have a federal judge murdered, but he did so to obstruct justice in a terrorism case against him,” U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade for the Eastern District of Michigan said in a statement Wednesday. “This prosecution seeks to hold the defendant accountable for attempting to victimize the judge and for trying to undermine our criminal justice system.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4395972/man-facing-terrorism-charges-indicted-for-plot-to-murder-judge-in-his-case/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4395972/man-facing-terrorism-charges-indicted-for-plot-to-murder-judge-in-his-case/"},"headline":"Man Facing Terrorism Charges Indicted for Plot to Murder Judge in His Case","datePublished":"2016-07-06T23:40:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:05:46.525Z","description":"The judge was presiding over the case that landed the man in jail last year","url":"https://time.com/4395972/man-facing-terrorism-charges-indicted-for-plot-to-murder-judge-in-his-case/","keywords":["Crime","Department of Justice","Ohio"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9245c0edb847ce09/69889aed524fc02c60df8a30/yahya_farooq_mohammad_070616.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Emma Ockerman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/emma-ockerman/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9245c0edb847ce09/69889aed524fc02c60df8a30/yahya_farooq_mohammad_070616.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Yahya Farooq Mohammad","caption":"Yahya Farooq Mohammad","creditText":"Lucas County Sheriff's Office","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4395972/man-facing-terrorism-charges-indicted-for-plot-to-murder-judge-in-his-case/","name":"Man Facing Terrorism Charges Indicted for Plot to Murder Judge in His Case"}}]}] ```