Christopher Raymond Joseph, an 18-year-old student at the University of South Florida, is the second teen charged over the threats that put New Jersey synagogues on high alert.
A Florida college student was arrested Thursday for allegedly attempting to conceal online chats he had with a New Jersey man facing federal charges for allegedly plotting a series of synagogue attacks.
Joseph appeared on the FBI’s radar following Alkattoul’s arrest in November, when investigators searched Alkattoul’s phone for evidence. On it, the complaint states agents found an Oct. 29 message “via an encrypted messaging application” to Joseph, who was listed in Alkattoul’s contacts as “C.J.”“talking with bad people on the internet.”
Over the course of the 42-minute conversation, Joseph also “voluntarily agreed to take agents to his dorm room to view the contents of his phone” but an agent allegedly saw Joseph surreptitiously erase one of the many large blocks of online conversation between him and Alkattoul—which is what ultimately did Joseph in.
Still, Joseph said he never really thought Alkattoul was serious. He then agreed to hand his phone over again to agents, who noticed that one of the chat threads they had seen earlier was no longer there. When asked why he deleted it, Joseph replied that he “did not want to get in trouble,” and that he felt “embarrassed,” according to the complaint.
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