Archive for July 2023
Jury to deliver verdict over Brussels extremist attacks that killed 32
A jury is expected to issue a verdict Tuesday over Belgium’s deadliest peacetime attack, suicide bombings at the Brussels airport and a busy subway station in 2016 that killed 32 people in a wave of violence in Europe claimed by the Islamic State group. Among the 10 defendants is Salah Abdeslam, who already is serving…
Read MoreMayor of Ecuador port city slain in shooting that kills 1 other, wounds 4
The mayor of Ecuador’s third largest city was slain Sunday in a shooting that killed one other person and wounded four more, including two suspected attackers, officials said. Agustín Intriago, a 38-year-old lawyer, belonged to the local Better City movement in the port city of Manta and was recently re-elected to a term that began…
Read MorePolice arrest suspect in knife attack on a train in western Japan. 3 were slashed and injured
Japanese police said Monday that they have arrested a man on suspicion of slashing three people on a train in western Japan. The 37-year-old suspect was carrying three knives, including two in each hand, when he was arrested on the platform of Rinku Town station in Osaka, western Japan, immediately after the alleged attack Sunday,…
Read More4 stabbed in series of unprovoked attacks in Maryland; suspect shot dead by officer: Police
Four people were injured, one critically, in a series of unprovoked stabbings in Maryland on Saturday, police said. The suspect was shot and killed by a police officer following a short pursuit, Montgomery County police said. Police received two nearly simultaneous reports of stabbings in Silver Spring shortly before 10:40 a.m. local time — one…
Read MoreHate crime charges added for suspect in Annapolis shooting that killed 3, injured 3 others
Hate crime charges have been added for the suspect in the mass shooting that killed three people and injured three others in Annapolis. Charles Robert Smith, 43, of Annapolis was handed the additional charges Friday by a grand jury, in addition to 39 other counts he is facing for the shooting on June 11, that…
Read MoreRadical UK Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary charged with three terrorist offences
British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been charged with three terrorism offences after being arrested in London last week, police said on Monday. Choudary, 56, has been charged with membership of a proscribed organisation, directing a terrorist organisation and addressing meetings to encourage support for a proscribed organisation, police said. He will appear in…
Read More19 people in 4 states indicted as part of large-scale, gang related drug investigation.
As part of this multiagency operation, federal, state, and local law enforcement officers from 16 different law enforcement agencies, served arrest warrants and search warrants at 18 locations in Central Indiana and in Arizona on the morning of June 22nd. 16 individuals were arrested and are in federal custody. Three remain as fugitives. According to…
Read MoreThree 19-Year-Olds Arrested in 2022 Fatal Shooting in Santa Maria.
Three people have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in Santa Maria nine months ago. Early Friday morning, detectives and SWAT team members served search and arrest warrants in the 300 block of West Shiela Lane, according to Lt. Daniel Rios from the Santa Maria Police Department Detective Bureau. The operation was linked…
Read More7 MS-13 gang members indicted on 15 charges following Beaumont penitentiary attack that prompted nationwide lockdown.
he US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas identified seven MS-13 gang members who are accused of committing violent crimes during the deadly Jan 31 attack in a Beaumont penitentiary that caused a nationwide prison lockdown. Two prison inmates died after the MS-13 gang members attacked multiple Sureños members and a Mexican Mafia…
Read MoreTrial of MS-13 gang members involved in several violent crimes to begin Monday in New York.
he trial against three members of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, on extortion, murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, robbery, and firearms-related charges, will begin next Monday in Brooklyn federal court in New York. The MS-13 gang members who will be tried face murder charges are Melvi Amador-Ríos, Josue…
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