Archive for June 2023
Hungary arrests Norwegian plotting to ‘outdo’ Breivik mass killings
Hungarian authorities have arrested a 45-year-old Norwegian man suspected of plotting mass killings that were intended to eclipse a 2011 massacre by Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, police said on Tuesday. Breivik killed 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then…
Read More41 Women Die in Riot in Honduran Prison that President Blames on ‘Mara’ Gangs.
A grisly riot at a women’s prison in Honduras Tuesday left at least 41 women dead, most burned to death, in violence the country’s president blamed on “mara” street gangs that often wield broad power inside penitentiaries. Most victims were burned but there also were reports of inmates shot at the prison in Tamara, about…
Read MoreIslamic State: Woman jailed in Germany for keeping Yazidi woman as slave
A German woman who joined the Islamic State (IS) group has been jailed for nine years for crimes including keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave. The defendant was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and membership of a foreign terrorist organisation. A court in the western city of Koblenz said the 37-year-old had…
Read More‘Boom’: Pokémon cards help police identify Harford County man charged with using explosives
Officials say Pokémon cards helped police and fire investigators identify a man who is charged with detonating explosive devices in Aberdeen. The Office of the State Fire Marshal said Jeremiah Burnette, 34, of Aberdeen, has been charged with possessing and using an explosive device. At around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, Aberdeen police officers responded to…
Read MoreSwastikas, hate speech found scrawled on Taunton, Massachusetts, synagogue, home
Police are investigating a hate crime in Taunton, Massachusetts, after a synagogue and a home were spray-painted with swastikas and other hateful messages. A swastika was painted near the entrance to Congregation Agudath Achim, and more swastikas and antisemitic, racist and homophobic slurs were found on the rear of the building. “This person was an…
Read MoreMichigan House OKs new hate crime, institutional desecration penalties
The Michigan House on Tuesday passed a package of bills to reclassify certain offenses as hate crimes and designate the defacement of synagogues, churches or cemeteries as a crime separate from ordinary destruction of property. The Michigan Hate Crime Act, which passed 59-50 in the Democratic-controlled House, would replace Michigan’s 1988 ethnic intimidation law so…
Read MoreFrance shuts down climate activist group, saying it provoked violence
France is shutting down the environmental activist group Les Soulevements de la Terre (SLT) for provoking armed protests or violent actions, the government said on Wednesday, a move immediately criticized by the leftist opposition and NGOs. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has referred several times to “eco-terrorism” in relation to SLT actions in recent months, saying…
Read MoreNational MS-13 gang leader, 22 members indicted for “cold-blooded” murders.
Prosecutors on Wednesday charged an alleged leader national leader and 22 members of the MS-13 gang with murder and other acts of violence. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced a 48-count superseding indictment against Edenilson Velasquez Larin, “allegedly a national leader of the MS-13 and the Fulton Locos Salvatruchas (Fulton) clique,…
Read MoreMS-13 gang member gets 26 years for racketeering conspiracy, murder and more after HSI Baltimore investigation.
BALTIMORE— A joint investigation involving Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore landed a Salvadoran national 26 years in federal prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy that included murder, drug distribution and firearms charges. Jose Lopez-Rivera, 27, of Elmont, New York, received the lengthy prison sentence May 31 at the U.S. District Court for the…
Read MoreMember of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Participating in a Racketeering Conspiracy, Including Murder and a Drug Distribution Conspiracy.
Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Julie R. Rubin today sentenced James Henry Roberts, a/k/a “Bub,” age 33, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 30 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise related to his activities in the Normandy, Franklin, and Loudon (“NFL”) gang, which…
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