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MCGREGOR W. SCOTT
United States Attorney
DAWRENCE W. RICE, JR.
CHRISTOPHER D. BAKER 7 
Assistant United States Attorneys 
2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4401 I 11 AH 04 

Fresno, CA 93721 
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Attorneys for Plaintiff
United States of America

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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VIOLATIONS: 18 U.S.C. 2339B(a)(l) and 2 
v. Attempting to Provide Material Support and
Resources to a Designated Foreign Terrorist
EVERITT AARON JAMESON, Organization; 18 U.S.C. 842(p)(2)(A) 
Distribution of Information Relating to Destructive 
Defendant. Devices
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COUNT ONE: 18 U.S.C. 2339B(a)(l) and 2 ?Attempting to Provide Material Support and Resources
to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
The Grand Jury charges:
I EVERITT AARON AMESON,

defendant herein, as follows:

From on or around October 24, 2017,'through December 20, 2017, in Stanislaus County, within the
State and Eastern District of California, and elsewhere, defendant EVERITT AARON AMESON, a
national of the United States, knowingly attempted to provide material support and resources, that is,
personnel (namely himself) and services to a foreign terrorist organization, to wit, the Islamic State of

Iraq and al-Sharn (ISIS), which at all relevant times was designated by the Secretary of State as a foreign

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terrorist organization, knowing that ISIS was a designated foreign terrorist organization and that ISIS

engages and has engaged in terrorist activity and terrorism, all in violation of Title 18, United States

Code, Sections 2339B(a)(l) and 2.

COUNT TWO: 18 U.S.C. 842(p)(2)(A) Distribution of Information Relating to Destructive Devices

The Grand Jury further charges:
EVERITT AARON JAMESON,

defendant herein, as follows:

On or around December 16, 2017, in Stanislaus County, within the State and Eastern District of
California, and elsewhere, defendant EVERITT AARON JAMESON, did knowingly demonstrate the
making and use of a ?destructive device? as de?ned in Title 18, United States Code, Section 921 
and distribute by?any means information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture and use of a
?destructive device? as de?ned in Title 18?, United States Code, Section 921(a)(4), with the intent that
the information be used for, and in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of .
violence, as de?ned in Title 18, United States Code, Section 16, including bombing of a place of public
use, public transportation system, and infrastructure facility, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,
Section 2332f, in that the defendant described to a person that he believed was working for a foreign
terrorist organization (ISIS) that he was well versed with the Anarchist Cookbook, described how to
build destructive devices, to wit, pipe bombs, out of PVC pipe, gunpowder, nails and described
the location where he planned to assemble such devices, asked for remote timing devices
from the person that he believed was working for ISIS to use with such destructive devices, and
described how to use such destructive devices in an attack on Pier 39 in San Francisco, California to

funnel people into area in order to shoot them, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section






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KIRK E. SHERRIFF

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KIRK E. SHERRIFF
Assistant United States Attorney
Chief, Fresno Of?ce

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