A former U.S. Army soldier, Pfc. Cole Bridges, 24, from Stow, Ohio, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to attempting to provide ISIS with tactical information for planning attacks on U.S. soldiers.
This decision was made by the U.S. Justice Department. Pfc. Cole Bridges enlisted in the Army in 2019 and was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, with the Third Infantry Division.
In January 2021, he was arrested and later pleaded guilty in June 2023 to charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military personnel. As part of his sentence, Bridges received 14 years in prison and an additional 10 years of supervised release.
The investigation was led by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, in collaboration with various federal, state, and local agencies. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams expressed his strong condemnation of Bridges’ actions, stating that they were a severe betrayal as he tried to inflict harm on the very soldiers he was entrusted to safeguard.
