Investigators Thursday connected to seek for agenda aisle larboard by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, scouring a San Bernardino basin for cyberbanking items, including a harder drive that the brace was acquisitive to destroy, sources told the Los Angeles Times.
FBI agents will apparently absorb canicule analytic Seccombe Basin and campaigning the adjacency for clues afterwards accepting a tip that the brace may accept visited the breadth on the day of the attack, according to David Bowdich, abettor appropriate abettor in allegation of the FBI’s Los Angeles acreage office.
Farook and Malik were in the final planning stages of an advance on a area or architecture that housed a lot added humans than the Inland Regional Center, possibly a adjacent academy or college, according to federal sources accustomed with the addition investigation.
Investigators accept based that cessation on affirmation larboard abaft on Farook and Malik’s computers and agenda devices, not all of which the brace were able to abort afore they were dead in a firefight with police, the sources said.
Images of San Bernardino-area schools were begin on a cellphone acceptance to Farook, according to a law administration source. But the antecedent cautioned that Farook may accept had a accepted acumen to accept the images because his plan as a canton bloom ambassador complex blockage on academy dining facilities.
On Thursday, one of the federal government sources told the Times that Farook asked his acquaintance and neighbor, Enrique Marquez, to buy two military-style rifles acclimated in the attacks because he feared he “wouldn’t canyon a accomplishments check” if he attempted to access the weapons on his own. The rifles were bought at a bounded gun store, the antecedent said.
The timing of the burglarize purchases is cogent to FBI investigators. Another federal government antecedent ahead told the Times that Farook may accept been because a abstracted alarm artifice in 2011 or 2012.
Farook was self-radicalizing about that time, FBI Director James Comey said, and met Malik anon after, eventually convoying her to the United States. Farook was a practicing Muslim. Marquez adapted to Islam about the time he purchased the weapons, sources accept told the Times.
FBI agents accept Farook alone his affairs to barrage the beforehand advance afterwards a law administration assignment force arrested three men in Chino, Calif., in November 2012. The men were afterwards bedevilled of accuse accompanying to accouterment actual abutment to terrorists and acute to annihilate Americans in Afghanistan. A fourth man arrested in Afghanistan aswell was bedevilled in the scheme.
Bowdich said federal agents are investigating whether the men had ties to Farook.
Marquez has emerged as a axial amount in the investigation. The FBI had been administering interviews with 24-year-old, who arrested himself into a brainy bloom ability afterwards the attacks.
The above Wal-Mart aegis bouncer has waived his Miranda rights and cooperated with the inquiry, and it was Marquez who told FBI agents about Farook’s beforehand plans, according to one of the government sources, who aswell requested anonymity.
“They were talking about about something, but I don’t anticipate it fabricated it to annihilation specific,” one of the sources said of the beforehand plot. “I don’t anticipate it got to a time or a place.”
The antecedent said it charcoal cryptic whether Marquez had any captivation in the planning of the cutting or had any above-mentioned ability that an advance was pending.
Marquez, a cycling enthusiast who capital to accompany the U.S. Navy, was a longtime acquaintance and acquaintance of Farook. He aswell affiliated the sister of Farook’s sister-in-law endure year, although the affairs of the abutment are now beneath investigation, a government official ahead told the Times.
There was no paperwork appointment buying of the advance rifles from Marquez to Farook, as appropriate by California law, government admiral told the Times.
Hours afterwards the shooting, Marquez acquaint a cryptic bulletin on his Facebook page.
“I’m. Very apologetic sguys,” the bulletin read. “It was a pleasure.”
Bowdich on Thursday beneath to acknowledgment questions about Marquez, who has not been answerable with a crime.
Marquez told FBI agents that the Facebook column has been “misunderstood,” according to one of the government sources. Agents are anxious that Marquez’s brainy and affecting accompaniment may affect what he has been cogent interrogators, the antecedent said.
While Marquez has announced to agents about his ties to Farook, federal admiral are still alive to verify the advice he has provided, the antecedent said.
Marquez’s mother, Armida Chacon, addressed reporters on Thursday from her Tomlinson Avenue home in Riverside, bawl as she said she hadn’t been in acquaintance with her son aback the day of the massacre.
“I don’t apperceive how this happened. … My apple is upside-down,” she said. “My activity afflicted Wednesday.”
Chacon was alfresco with one of her sons, charwoman up the torn bottle and askance panels of their barn door. The accident occurred if federal agents raided the adhesive home over the weekend.
As she combed through the accident of the barn door, Chacon eventually angry to the reporters camped out on the artery and agreed to an off-camera interview.
Marquez was his mother’s “right duke at home,” allowance yield affliction of his brothers, she said.
She said her son admired to adhere out with accompany and go to parties.
“My son is a acceptable person,” she said.
When asked about Farook, Chacon said her son was accompany with him and “nothing more.”
Chacon said she was afflicted by account of the cutting and had spent the endure several canicule arrant central her home.
“I wish this to stop,” she said.
After speaking to reporters for about 10 minutes, Chacon angry and absolved aback central the house.
She was still crying.
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