Cuban national, Yosvany Padilla-Conde, who was living in Milwaukee when he was arrested, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting another man, Jason Ludke’s attempt to join the ISIS. Padilla-Conde planned to drive Ludke to Mexico in order to travel under the radar to Syria or Iraq. Padilla-Conde pledged his allegiance to the terrorist group in an online video, in which also detailed his own plans to travel to the Middle East. Both men were subsequently convicted.