A Florida man pledged allegiance to ISIS instead of the United States of America. 

Romeo Xavier Langhorne, 32, dedicated himself to ISIS in 2014 and continued to affirm his support for the terrorist organization in 2018 and 2019. 

He was arrested in 2019 and pleaded guilty to providing support to ISIS. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison this week. His sentence tacks on 15 years supervised release. 

Langhorne distributed a video online with instructions for making explosives. 

An FBI agent, posing as an ISIS member, started communicating with Langhorne in 2019, and learned about his plan to create a video about how to make triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a powerful explosive, known as the “Mother of Satan.” 

Mother of Satan, according to intelligence officials, is commonly used by terrorist groups because it is relatively cheap to make. 

The agent offered to help him produce the video.

The US Attorney’s Office in Florida said that Langhorne wanted to make the video in order to “arm ISIS adherents and others with knowledge of how to make TATP and use it for terrorism-related purposes in support of ISIS.”

However, the undercover FBI agent foiled the man’s plans and created a video with a replacement for the explosive that would fail to explode. Langhorne uploaded that video to social media in November 2019 and he was arrested soon after.

According to an FBI release, Langhorne admitted in an interview that, “He had ‘probably at some point’ pledged allegiance to both ISIS and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was the leader of ISIS from 2014 until his death on Oct. 26, 2019. Langhorne admitted that he communicated with the (undercover agent) and that he uploaded the … video to the internet.”