Alleged NJ jihadi yuppie already trying to land plea deal from gov’t: court docs

One of the accused Jersey boy jihadi yuppies nabbed last week in a bombshell home-grown terrorism case is already angling to get a plea deal from the feds, new court papers show.

Tomas Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of tony liberal Montclair, NJ — which is also home to Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill — was arrested Wednesday for allegedly swearing allegiance to ISIS, plotting to move to the Middle East to build up a group of violent jihadists and threatening violence against Jewish people and other non-Muslims.

Newark federal magistrate Judge André Espinosa has now ordered the next court date in Jimenez-Guzel’s case to be pushed off until Jan. 14, 2026 — partly so that he and prosecutors can try to hash out a desired plea deal, according to a ruling.

“Both the United States and the defendant desire additional time to negotiate a plea agreement, which would render grand jury proceedings and a trial in this matter unnecessary,” Espinosa wrote in court papers.

The extra time will also allow Jimenez-Guzel’s lawyer to wade through all of the evidence the feds have turned over, since “the charges in this case result from a lengthy investigation,” the judge added.

In two criminal complaints totaling nearly 60 pages, the government detailed disturbing group chats and conversations the young alleged jihadis engaged in with other suspected wannabe ISIS terrorists from around the country and world — including some chats that involved their aspirations to behead infidels and carry out a “Boston bombing-like attack.”

The Boston Marathon terror blast in 2013 killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

Both Jimenez-Guzel and fellow accused ISIS sympathizer Milo Sedarat, 19, live in Montclair and come from prominent families.

Sedarat’s father, Roger Sedarat, is a noted Iranian American poet and a professor at Queens College in New York City.

Jimenez-Guzel’s mother, Meral Guzel, was once a UN diplomat who headed a women’s business agency, and she also previously worked in bank and finance jobs, according to her LinkedIn account.

Sedarat proudly proclaimed himself the biggest antisemite in America, raged about the fact he mother had Jewish friends and said he wanted to mow down protesters in a pro-Israel march in Montclair with a car, according to the criminal complaint.

Sedarat, Jimenez-Guzel and another defendant, Saed Ali Mirreh, 19, of Washington state, chatted in online groups with people around the world — including from Finland, Sweden and the UK — about migrating to Syria, building a group of ISIS-inspired terrorists and carrying out violence against non-believers.

Jimenez-Guzel and Mirreh, are charged with attempted and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and face up to 40 years behind bars if convicted on all counts.

Sedarat was hit with two counts of transmitting a threat in interstate and foreign commerce and could face 10 years behind bars if convicted on both charges.

Lawyers for all three men did not return requests for comment Monday morning.