Archive for June 2023
Prince George’s County resident finds old ammo box with potential explosives
The Prince George’s County Fire and EMS Department said it had to use a robot to disarm a potential explosive device that was turned in to officials. According to a tweet from the department, a concerned citizen brought an old ammo box with potential dynamite inside to Station 840 on Brandywine Road in Prince George’s…
Read MoreGun Held to Student’s Head on School Bus, 3 Teens Arrested in Gang Related Incident.
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD — A 14-year-old middle school girl has been arrested and charged with attempted murder for her role in an gang-related attack on a Prince George’s County school bus where one student was almost shot, authorities said. A teenage boy was assaulted by three teenage boys on a school bus May 1.…
Read MoreReading terrorist had assault charge dropped weeks before attack, court told
Charges against a man who was later responsible for the Reading terror attack were dropped due to “miscommunication” between the Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service, a pre-inquest review has heard. Khairi Saadallah murdered three men in a Reading park on 20 June 2020 as coronavirus restrictions were eased. Saadallah allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” as…
Read MoreHamden Man Admits Mailing Numerous Threatening Letters
GARRETT SANTILLO, 43, of Hamden, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to mailing numerous threatening letters to individuals in Connecticut and elsewhere. According to court documents and statements made in court, between approximately December 2021 and June 2022, Santillo mailed more than 100 letters containing threatening and hateful statements,…
Read MoreDeputy governor of northern Afghan province killed in car bomb attack
The deputy governor of Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province was killed by a car bomb on Tuesday, the provincial spokesperson said. “Nissar Ahmad Ahmadi, with his driver, has been killed and six civilians were injured,” said Mahzudeen Ahmadi, the head of the information office of Badakshan, a province in the far north of the country that…
Read MoreMilitia Members Indicted for Conspiracy to Murder Border Patrol Officers and Attempted Murder of FBI Agents
Two members of the self-styled 2nd American Militia who conspired to go “to war with border patrol” have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a conspiracy to murder Border Patrol officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents who arrested them on the eve of their planned trip to…
Read MoreAlleged Gang Members Arrested in 2 Silver Spring Homicides.
The deaths of two men just hours apart in Silver Spring, Maryland, in November are gang related, prosecutors say. Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said a planned gang execution took place about 6 p.m. Nov. 9 in a ravine behind an apartment complex on Piney Branch Road. “The reason that we are now talking…
Read MoreOperation Washout: Feds Announce Arrests of Nearly 100 Fugitives and Wanted Gang Members in Maryland.
Operation Washout: Feds announce arrests of nearly 100 fugitivesSaturday, June 3, 2023WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5 BALTIMORE MD- Operation Washout resulted in the arrests of 95 violent fugitives and wanted gang members in Maryland during the month of May, the U.S. Marshals Service announced Friday. Federal, state and local law enforcement partnered to focus…
Read MoreGang member sentenced to 26 years in prison for murdering man wearing wrong shoes.
BALTIMORE, MD — A member of the violent MS-13 gang was sentenced to 26 years in prison for a racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a person wearing the wrong shoes. Jose Lopez Rivera, 27, is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador and was a member of the trans-national La Mara Salvatrucha gang, according to…
Read MoreBIG NAME RETAIL STORES NOW TARGETED BY GANGS IN ORGANIZED HITS.
In a recent news piece by ABC News, reporters give the details of the impact of large-scale organized retail crime. Click on the link below to watch the report. https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/big-retail-stores-now-targeted-gangs-organized-hits-99782615
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