CHARLESTON, SC NEWS - LIVE 5 WCSC Breaking News, Weather, SportsMan once suspected of terror-related charges in SC won't face deportation

Man once suspected of terror-related charges in SC won't face deportation

TAMPA, FL (AP) - A 23-year-old Egyptian man acquitted of terrorism-related charges won't face

deportation.

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it wouldn't appeal a judge's decision

refusing to expel Youssef Megahed.

Federal prosecutors have already lost two cases against the University of South Florida student

since he was arrested two years ago in Goose Creek.

Berkeley County deputies pulled over Megahed and another man, Ahmed Mohamed, while they

driving near the Naval Weapons Station.

Megahed was acquitted of explosives charges in April, but taken into custody by immigration

officials weeks later. A judge in August threw out his deportation case.

Megahed has returned to USF and needs just one class to earn his engineering degree.

He's also resuming the process of becoming an American citizen.

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