Archive for December 2023
Tulsa arsonist sentenced to 60 months for hate crime targeting local donut shop
On Wednesday, an arsonist was sentenced for malicious use of explosive material, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Coby Dale Green, 25, of Tulsa to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. His sentence included a hate crime motivation enhancement. According to court documents, Green was…
Read MoreWoman who burned Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic ordered to pay $298,000
A judge has ordered a woman who set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, the full amount sought by prosecutors. Lorna Green is serving five years in prison for burning Wellspring Health Access weeks before the clinic was set to open in Casper in 2022. The fire gutted…
Read MoreUK Police record rise in religious hate crimes after Israel-Gaza war
Antisemitic hate crimes rose sharply in the month after the Hamas attack on Israel, figures from some of the UK’s largest police forces suggest. Some forces also recorded a rise in Islamophobic offences, though the picture is more mixed. The Community Safety Trust, a Jewish charity, has called the figures “shocking”. Meanwhile, campaigners against anti-Muslim…
Read MoreColorado man sentenced in Nevada power plant fire initially described as terror attack
A Colorado man was sentenced Wednesday to prison in Nevada following his arrest last January for setting his car afire at a remote facility in what authorities initially characterized as a terror attack on the electric system serving several Las Vegas Strip casinos. Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, 35, was sentenced to two to 10 years following…
Read MoreFire cadet arrested for writing arson ‘hit list’, Fremont County court documents allege
A Shenandoah Fire Department fire cadet is facing multiple felony charges after allegedly making a “hit list” of potential arson victims. Fremont County court documents claim 18-year-old Kaelyn Surrel had a hit list that included fellow Sidney Community School District students, district employees and other “people she had bad encounters with”. Surrel faces seven felony…
Read MoreUS sovereign citizen linked to Wieambilla murders, was prepared for deadly ‘last stand’ with police, court hears
An American extremist linked to the Wieambilla killers claims he wished he had joined in on their massacre of Queensland police officers and threatened to kill the FBI agents who arrested him, a US court has heard. A newly-released court transcript has revealed the disturbing interactions Arizona sovereign citizen Donald Day Jr had with the…
Read MorePrague gunman reportedly confessed to murdering a father and baby in suicide note
The gunman who killed 14 people at a university in Prague before killing himself, reportedly left a suicide note confessing to the murder of a father and his baby six days earlier, Czech media have reported. A note found at the home of David Kozak, 24, was said to have contained the admission he shot…
Read MoreHong Kong man jailed for 6 years after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge over a foiled bomb plot
A Hong Kong man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge under a Beijing-imposed national security law for his involvement in a foiled plot to bomb court buildings. Prosecutors said Ho Yu-wang, 19, was the plot mastermind who planned to manufacture explosives and target court buildings in…
Read MoreMoroccan man now facing charges in Canada after bomb threats in Ontario: OPP
A Moroccan man is facing charges in Canada after a series of bomb threats in Ontario last month and his arrest by Belgian police, the OPP says. The Ontario Provincial Police provided a brief update Wednesday on their investigation into a series of bomb threats that occurred in Ontario on Nov. 1. Multiple schools and…
Read MoreGerman police holding man in connection with a threat to Cologne Cathedral
German authorities say they have detained a man in connection with a reported threat to Cologne Cathedral over the holiday period. Police searched the cathedral with sniffer dogs just before Christmas, and Christmas Eve worshippers faced security checks to get into midnight Mass there. They didn’t specify the threat, but German news agency dpa said…
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