FISHERS, Ind. — Two brothers from Fishers will spend years in prison after they both pleaded guilty of trying to provide material support and resources, including guns, to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS”), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Moyad Dannon, 25, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years and 8 months in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release. His brother, Mahde Dannon, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in October 2021.
The brothers have been in federal custody since their arrest on May 15, 2019.
Between July 2018 and December 2018, the Dannon brothers sold illegally-obtained guns to a person who was cooperating with the FBI.
NOTE: The above video is from a previous report on the brothers' arrest.
The Dannon brothers also began to make untraceable "ghost guns" by purchasing unserialized firearms parts online and assembling those parts into fully-functioning, .223 caliber, semi-automatic and fully-automatic rifles, which they sold to an undercover FBI agent.
Shortly after, Moyad went with the undercover agent to a location near the U.S. southwest border to sell the rifles to a potential buyer who was also cooperating with the FBI's investigation. That's when Moyad learned the potential buyer was going to ship the weapons to a location in the Middle East, where the rifles would be used by ISIS.
Despite learning where the weapons were going, the Dannon brothers agreed to manufacture and sell at least 55 fully-automatic "ghost guns" to the buyer.
On May 15, 2019, the Dannon brothers manufactured five untraceable, fully-automatic, .223 caliber rifles from parts they had purchased online.
After building the fully-automatic rifles, the Dannon brothers sold all five weapons to undercover FBI agents posing as employees of the buyer near the southwest border. Almost immediately thereafter, FBI agents arrested the Dannon brothers.
Following the arrests, FBI agents found a flash drive on Moyad's keychain, containing approximately 16 gigabytes of ISIS propaganda, including graphically violent videos involving ISIS fighters against civilians, hostages and U.S. military members.
