The FBI and local authorities arrested a 20-year-old man Wednesday night in Eagan on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization.

Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame is the 10th member of Minnesota’s Somali-American community charged in an alleged conspiracy to travel to Syria to join and fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Of the other nine, three have pleaded guilty, five are scheduled to start trial and one is in Syria.

A warrant issued for Warsame’s arrest Wednesday said Warsame was appointed emir, or leader, of the group in the spring of 2014 after the previous leader made his own attempts to leave for Syria. Warsame provided cash for one member to apply for an expedited passport and he helped track down ISIL contact numbers for another member, according to the complaint.

Most of the group’s efforts to leave the country were stopped by law enforcement or family members. Early this year a group started making new plans to try to reach Syria via Mexico.

“Warsame did not plan to join the Mexico group, because he was planning to travel with his family to East Africa, then either break free of his family and travel onwards to Syria, or … wait in Somalia for a time when, he believed, ISIL would expand to Somalia,” an FBI agent wrote in the complaint.

With the help of a confidential source, the FBI recorded conversations among the conspirators, the complaint said.

In one recording, Warsame described a 2014 conversation when he told co-conspirator Abdi Nur he wanted to rob people to finance the group’s travel overseas, according to the FBI. Nur said they should rob the government instead.

“Warsame then referred to Nur as ‘a genius,’ ” the agent wrote.

Shortly after that conversation, Nur successfully traveled to Syria, where he joined ISIL, according to the FBI.

In other recorded conversations, Warsame encouraged the group’s previous leader, Guled Ali Omar, to keep trying to reach Syria despite repeated failures.

“Could it be maybe this time if you still go, maybe Allah will see you as somebody who is, keeps trying and will probably allow you to go?” Warsame said, according to the complaint. “You will give a hundred and a thousand people … conviction that anybody can do it. … You will be an inspiration.”

Warsame was arrested about 7 p.m. without incident by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force. He remained in custody Wednesday night.

He is expected to make an initial appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court.

Jaime DeLage can be reached at 651-228-5450. Follow him at twitter.com/JaimeDeLage.