Federal authorities says that a young man from the U.S. now fighting for the Islamic State in Syria used funds garnered from a settlement in the 2007 Minnesota bridge collapse to finance his trip, as well pay for cars and weddings of his fellow jihadis.

Mohamed Amiin Ali Roble, 20, was one of 145 people injured when the I-35W Mississippi River bridge suddenly collapsed due to a design flaw, killing 13.

Roble was one of a group of men from Minneapolis who were recruited to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and planned to travel to Syria to fight for the terror group. At present, nine of the men who were caught before leaving the country and convicted on terror-related charged are awaiting sentencing in that case. Until last week when Roble was charged, Roble’s uncle, Abdi Nur, who managed to leave the country without being detected, was the only man charged in absentia.

Nur is subsequently believed to have been killed in Syria fighting for ISIS while Roble is thought to be alive.

In 2014, when Roble was 18, he was given the settlement money in the case, an amount of $91,654 paid by the state of Minnesota, a contractor and an engineering firm. He then opened two bank accounts and applied for a passport, saying he planned to travel to China for studies.

In October of the same year, Roble traveled with his mother to China, making a stop in Beijing and then to Wuhan. One other man involved in the case, Adnan Farah, also said he would be studying in China and applied for a passport. However, Farah’s family became suspicious and confiscated the passport when it arrived at the family’s home.

Once in China, Roble made a day trip to Istanbul, Turkey in November, 2014. The next month, he flew again, this time without returning, according to the FBI.

According to one of the co-conspirators in the case turned FBI informant, Roble had been waiting for the settlement money to make his move. After he traveled the last time to Istanbul, records show that his checking account was used close to 45 times in Gaziantep, a Turkish border town about 35 miles from Syria where many jihadis congregate before crossing the border. There, his purchases totaled more than $47,000.

One co-defendant in the trial said he saw pictures of Roble “in a desert setting” carrying an assault rifle and an ISIS flag. He also reported seeing pictures from Syria of Roble and his uncle together.

Another co-defendant said Roble was passing out money “like candy” to his fellow jihadis in Syria, buying them cars and paying for a number of weddings.

Roble was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS, for travel preparation and with providing material support to the terror group when he allegedly crossed into Syria.