ISIS Member Arrested in Sacramento

U.S. Department of Justice - Omar Ameen

Members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department located and arrested Omar Ameen earlier today in the Sacramento area. Ameen is an ISIS member accused of murdering an Iraqi Police Officer in Rawah District of Al-Anbar Province during an ISIS operation to take over the province. 

During that operation, ISIS entered the Rawah District of Al-Anbar Province in Iraq and seized control of the district on June 21, 2014, preventing citizens from entering or exiting the district. The following day, a four-vehicle ISIS convoy carrying several people, including Ameen, stopped at the family home of an Iraqi police officer and opened fire, documents said. Ameen fired his weapon at the officer while the victim was on the ground, hitting him in the chest, according to court records.

Ameen is believed to have entered the United States as a refugee, submitting his application with the United States Government a month prior to the ISIS operation. Ameen listed himself as a vegetable trader and truck driver on his refugee application. Ameen was able to keep his terrorism ties hidden from the United States Government during the application process for refugee status. 

According to his father, brother and other close relatives, they said he was a member of ISIS. They said it is common knowledge that Ameen was a main figure in ISIS and was said to be one of five native Rawah families that helped found Al Quaeda in the region, according to the documents released by the FBI.