An immigrant from Uzbekistan, who “pleaded guilty in February to threatening to kill the president, providing material support to terrorism and unlawfully possessing a firearm,” has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison, Jay Reeves reports for The Associated Press. After entering the country on a student visa to study medicine at Columbia University, Ulugbek Kodirov never enrolled, but instead began working at a mall in Alabama. Kodirov’s defense team said that their client grew lonely and turned to the internet where he began corresponding with a person he believed to be member of an anti-American, Uzbek Islamic group. “This case is an example of how our youth can be radicalized by the propaganda and lies on the Internet,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Whisonant.