Friend of San Bernardino shooter faces terrorism charges

Enrique Marquez, who supplied the assault rifles used in the massacre this month in San Bernardino, California, was arrested on Thursday and charged with terrorism crimes, according to a charging statement released by federal officials.

Marquez, 24, was charged with conspiring to give material support to terrorists. He was accused of conspiring with one of the attackers, Syed Rizwan Farook, in 2011 and 2012 to commit crimes of terrorism. Court papers show that he and Farook, his longtime friend and neighbor, had been discussing radical Islam since 2007.

In addition to the terrorism charge, Marquez was also charged with unlawfully purchasing two assault rifles used in the San Bernardino massacre and defrauding the immigration system by entering into a sham marriage with a Russian immigrant.

Marquez bought not only the guns used in the San Bernardino shooting but also the smokeless powder that Farook used to build pipe bombs, according to the documents filed in Federal District Court.

The charging statement provides the most detailed account yet from authorities of the the worst terror attack on the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.

Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple with a young baby, killed 14 people and wounded 21 others in the San Bernardino massacre. The couple died in a shootout with police hours later. Endi