Maryland Man Charged With ISIS-Inspired Plot Pleads Guilty to Planning Separate Airport Attack

Maryland Man Charged With ISIS-Inspired Plot Pleads Guilty to Planning Separate Airport Attack
The Metrorail station at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., on Nov. 2, 2022, with the terminal in the background. Matthew Barakat/AP Photo
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SILVER SPRING, Md.—A Maryland man charged in 2019 with planning an ISIS-inspired attack at a Washington area shopping and entertainment complex pleaded guilty on Monday to engaging in a separate plot to drive a stolen van into a crowd of people at a nearby airport.

Rondell Henry’s plea agreement with Justice Department prosecutors could lead to his release from federal custody as soon as October, when a judge is scheduled to sentence him in the airport plot, which Mr. Henry abandoned. Mr. Henry, who has remained in custody for over four years, didn’t harm anybody before police arrested him.