Man charged with backing Islamic State faces trial in June

SPRINGFIELD — The son of a Boston police captain charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a college campus to support the Islamic State group heads to trial next year.
A federal judge last week scheduled 25-year-old Alexander Ciccolo‘s trial to start June 18.
Ciccolo, of Adams, was arrested in July 2015 after receiving guns from a federal informant. Prosecutors say he planned to detonate homemade bombs similar to the pressure cooker bombs used in the 2013 Boston Marathon attack.
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