‘Jihad Jane’ Has Texas Arrest Record

FERRIS, Texas (AP) _ An American woman accused of inciting foreign terrorism was twice arrested in Texas on misdemeanor public intoxication charges.

An investigator with the Ferris police department in rural Texas said Wednesday that Colleen R. LaRose was arrested in February 2001 and April 2002 on charges of public intoxication. Investigator Sam Love said LaRose paid her fines in city court after both arrests.

LaRose eventually moved to suburban Philadelphia and was accused in an indictment Tuesday of trying to recruit jihadist fighters and promising to murder a Swedish cartoonist who had angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.

Love said LaRose was pulled over in both arrests in Ferris, which is about 20 miles south of Dallas.

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