By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-06-03 20:51:09 | Updated at 2026-06-07 14:14:26
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Two accused Jersey boy jihadis are set to plead guilty after they allegedly pledging themselves to ISIS in the pursuit of violence — as one blamed post-Oct.7 social media algorithms for his radicalization.
Yuppie Montclair residents Tomaskaan Jimenez-Guzel and Milo Sedarat have struck deals in their criminal cases.
Jimenez-Guzel, a hulking high-school jock, is to enter a guilty plea on July 9, according to court records.
In the meantime, Sedarat — who doesn’t yet have a date set for his guilty plea — is seeking to be released from jail to home confinement at his parents’ house in the ritzy town outside Newark, according to papers filed in federal court Monday.
Sedarat’s attorneys are trying to blame social media for his path to radicalization.
After the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel, “Milo spiraled” and “his social media algorithms pumped [him] videos of gory war crimes,” his lawyers claimed in the papers.
The content he was being fed soon escalated to “antisemitic content and ISIS propaganda videos,” the docs claimed.
Sedarat — the 19-year-old son of famed Iranian-American poet Roger Sedarat — “said abhorrent things to the people he connected with online and fantasized about what it would mean to take action,” his lawyers admitted in the filing.
Still, they said the teen never actually did anything violent and never intended “to harm any particular individual or group of people,” the court papers said.
He also never actually spoke with anyone inside a terrorist group and he never bought himself a plane ticket to the Middle East, the filing alleged.
“The worst he did was provide money to one friend to purchase a ticket to fly to Turkey,” his lawyers claimed.
“The remainder of Milo’s actions stayed online — he talked big, reprehensible talk online that he now understands was completely unacceptable,” the papers said.
Sedarat has been on 24-hour solitary lockdown in the Segregated Housing Unit at a federal lock-up, with barely an hour out of his cell a day since his arrest in November, his lawyers claimed.
He is asking a judge to allow him to be released from jail to home confinement at his family’s house under his parents’ supervision, with GPS tracking and limited use of the internet.
He would not be allowed on any social media platforms, as part of the conditions his team is proposed.
Sedarat is slated to plead guilty to one count of concealment of material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Two counts of transmitting threats are expected to be dismissed by prosecutors under the terms of the deal, his lawyers said in the papers.
He would face up to 20 years behind bars for the charge he’s pleading guilty to but is likely to get far less in light of copping a plea.
Sedarat and Jimenez-Guzel, 19, were busted in November for allegedly scheming online to move to the Middle East and start a group of wannabe jihadists.
In online messages, Sedarat was allegedly incensed about his mom’s Jewish friends and said he wanted to mow down a pro-Israel march in Montclair with his car, prosecutors claimed.
He also wanted to kill “500 Jews” and enslave their wives and kids, according to his criminal complaint.
Jimenez-Guzel — the son of UN diplomat who heads a women’s business agency — was arrested at Newark International Airport as he was planning to fly to Syria, via Turkey.
Jimenez-Guzel said he wanted to behead infidels and be so infamous for his violence that Netflix would make a documentary about him, prosecutors claimed.
Lawyers for Jimenez-Guzel — who was a football star in high school — unsuccessfully sought for him to be released to home confinement in February as they bizarrely said he partly turned to the hate groups because he wanted to be “on a team again.”
The pair were involved with others online who were also arrested around the country.
