PENSACOLA, Fla. (WTXL) - A 31-year-old Pensacola man has been sentenced to three years in prison after he lied to federal investigators about posting terrorist related material to his Facebook account.
The U.S. Attorney's Office Northern District of Florida reported that Robert Jackson was sentenced to three years in federal prison for lying in a federal investigation.
They said that they had began investigating Jackson back in October 2014, when he posted to his Facebook profile comments, photos, and videos expressing support for extremist terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
In January 2015, Jackson was fired from a telemarketing business for viewing terrorist related websites on his work computer.
When interviewed by the FBI in June 2015, he told them that he had never posted anything pro-ISIL on his social media and asserted that he only used the internet at work to search news sites.
After his arrest in July 2016, agents found that Jackson had an electronic table that had the most recent edition of Dabiq, an ISIL recuitment magazine as well as audio lectures of Anwar al-Awalki.
At his plea hearing in September, Jackson finally came clean, admitting that he had made false statements to federal agents.
