GREENBELT, Md. (NEWSnet/AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered the release of a Maryland man who has been imprisoned for more than four years on charges that he plotted Islamic State group-inspired attacks at an airport and at a shopping complex in the Washington, D.C., area.

Rondell Henry, 32, of Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty in August to attempting to perform an act of violence at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis agreed to sentence Henry to jail time he already served since his March 2019 arrest.

Accepting terms recommended by both prosecutors and defense attorneys, the judge also sentenced Henry to lifetime supervised release with mandatory participation in a mental health treatment program.

Henry abandoned a plan to drive a stolen U-Haul van into pedestrians at the airport because he didn’t think the gathering was large enough, prosecutors said. Police arrested Henry after he parked the truck at National Harbor, a waterfront destination in Maryland near the nation’s capital.

Henry did not harm anyone at either location, but a prosecutor has said he intended to kill as many “disbelievers” as possible. Henry’s plan was inspired by the July 2016 truck attack by an Islamic State group sympathizer who killed 86 people and injured hundreds at a Bastille Day event in Nice, France, according to prosecutors.

Henry’s case remained in limbo for years amid questions about his mental competence. In 2022, his attorneys notified the court that he intended to pursue an insanity defense.

Henry agreed to plead guilty to a felony that carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. But prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that an appropriate sentence for Henry would be time served and lifetime supervised release with mandatory mental health treatment and compliance with prescribed medication.

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