Former CA terrorism-convict sent back to prison for selling meth while on supervised release

A California man who served a 16 year prison sentence for charges relating to terrorism has been ordered to serve another 188 months in federal prison for selling nearly 4 pounds of methamphetamine while out on supervised release.

United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney sentenced 45 year old Ahmed Binyamin Alasiri, 45, a.k.a. Kevin Lamar James, to serve additional 24 months for violating the terms of his release that will be served concurrently to the 188 month sentence.

The Department of Justice said in a statement Alasiri sold meth on three separate occasions beginning in 2020, about a year after his release from prison, to an undercover FBI agent.

The DOJ says the total amount of the drug sold was 3.8 pounds. Alasiri admitted in his plea agreement that he had “family members who were drug traffickers and that he himself sold drugs to customers.”

Alasiri was sent to prison for 16 years in 2007 after he was found guilty of planning terrorist attacks on US military targets as well as Israeli and Jewish targets in California. Alasiri “was industrious and obtained legitimate full-time employment, yet he did not hesitate to traffic in drugs to earn income,” prosecutors wrote.