Archive for June 2023
[CA] Kern High School District Employee Charged with Federal Explosive Offenses
A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Angelo Jackson Mendiver, 26, of Bakersfield, an employee of the Kern High School District, charging him with conspiring to commit offenses against the United States; engaging in manufacturing and dealing in explosive materials; two counts of mailing an explosive device; improper storage of explosives; and…
Read MoreMassachusetts Man Arrested for Knowingly Concealing the Source of Material Support or Resources to a Foreign Terrorist Organization
A Wakefield, Mass. man was arrested today for knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Mateo Ventura, 18, was charged today in a criminal complaint with one count of knowingly concealing the source of…
Read MoreSheriff releases racist threats in case of Florida woman shot through door
A Florida woman charged with shooting and killing her Black neighbor told detectives that she called the victim’s children by racist slurs in the months leading up to the slaying, according to an arrest report released Thursday. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, admitted to detectives that she called the children “the n-word.” One child told deputies…
Read MoreBush Intercontinental Airport security breach: 22-year-old woman charged after trespassing on runway at IAH, police say
A woman is charged after police say she breached a security fence around Bush Airport and made it onto a runway Tuesday night. Airport officials said 22-year-old Ivori H. Howard was spotted at about 8:30 p.m. near runway 15L – causing it to shut down immediately. Dispatchers described the events to the Houston Police Department…
Read MoreJury convicts Oregon man who injured FBI bomb technician with shotgun booby trap
A jury has convicted an Oregon man who injured an FBI bomb technician with a shotgun attached to a wheelchair, one of the many booby traps the man had set up in his former home. A federal jury on June 2 found Gregory Lee Rodvelt, 71, guilty of assaulting a federal officer and using and…
Read MoreAudit: Naval Academy security was lacking at Bancroft Hall dormitory
The U.S. Naval Academy has upgraded physical security and antiterrorism measures at its massive Bancroft Hall dormitory following a Navy investigation last year that found the building’s security setup was seriously lacking. A Naval Audit Service probe of Bancroft Hall, released internally last year and recently obtained by Navy Times, reveals that the academy “did…
Read MoreNY man charged with terroristic threats against NJ Muslim leader
A 40-year-old New York man has been charged for terroristic threats he allegedly made to the imam of the New Brunswick Islamic Center in North Brunswick. Khaliyk Sellers, of the Bronx, was arrested without incident May 27 in Pennsylvania where he also is facing weapons charges, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. The Islamic Center’s…
Read MoreFrance knife attacker did not have ‘terrorist motive’: prosecutor
A suspect, identified by police as a 31-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker, was detained and did not appear to have a terrorist motive, according to the local prosecutor. The youngest victim in the quiet town of Annecy was just 22 months old and investigators are trying to understand the reasons for the frenzied rampage in a sunny…
Read MoreSeveral children injured in mass stabbing in French Alps
A man armed with a knife attacked a group of children aged around three years old at 9:45 am (07!45 GMT) on Thursday at a park near the lake in the town, a security source who asked not to be named and a local official told AFP. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted that the culprit…
Read MoreClashes in Ramallah as Israeli forces destroy home of Jerusalem bombings terrorist
Israeli forces on Wednesday night demolished the Ramallah home of the terrorist responsible for two deadly bus stop bombings in Jerusalem in November, according to the military spokesperson. “The IDF and the Special Forces destroyed the house of the terrorist Eslam Froukh tonight (Thursday) in the city of Ramallah. The terrorist carried out an attack…
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