ISIS
United States v. Mark Lorenzo Villanueva
Status: Mark Lorenzo Villanueva: Pleaded guilty, January 27, 2026
- District
- Central District of California
- Docket number
- Not matched
- Group named in DOJ releases
- ISIS
- Statutes
- 18 U.S.C. § 922; 18 U.S.C. § 2339B
- First DOJ release
- August 1, 2025
Primary Sources
- Long Beach Man Arrested on Federal Criminal Complaint Charging Him with Sending a Dozen Payments to Suspected ISIS Terrorists, U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California, August 1, 2025
- Long Beach Man Pleads Guilty to Sending a Dozen Payments to Suspected ISIS Terrorists and Illegally Possessing Homemade Bomb, U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California, January 27, 2026
Status and dates follow these DOJ releases. Docket details from CourtListener (RECAP).
Mark Lorenzo Villanueva
- Status
- Pleaded guilty (DOJ release, January 27, 2026)
- From the DOJ release:
Mark Lorenzo Villanueva, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
- Age
- 28 (per DOJ release of August 1, 2025)
- Charges as described by DOJ
- attempting to provide material support to ISIS
- Charging statutes
- 18 U.S.C. § 2339B; 18 U.S.C. § 922
- Charged or arrested
- August 1, 2025
- Plea or verdict
- January 27, 2026
Cite: Middle East Forum, Islamist Terrorism Prosecutions, "United States v. Mark Lorenzo Villanueva," accessed October 13, 2026, https://cases.meforum.org/case/us-v-villanueva-2025/