Archive for April 24, 2024
4 alleged members of Dominican gang accused of running drug ring.
vitalityvillage.online/a-closer-look-at-4-defendants-with-alleged-gang-ties-charged-in-staten-island-drug-trafficking-scheme/ STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — District Attorney Michael E. McMahon announced criminal charges against four Staten Island residents accused of running a large-scale drug trafficking operation on the island. On Monday, the group was apprehended by police after New York police executed a search warrant at a New Brighton home that turned up drugs and…
Read MoreAustralian counter terrorism force arrests seven teenagers after Sydney bishop stabbing
An Australian counter terrorism team arrested seven teenagers on Wednesday linked to a boy charged with a religiously-motivated terror attack on a Sydney bishop and questioned another five people. Police said a team of more than 400 police and security personnel were involved in the operation, which arrested associates of a 16-year-old boy charged with…
Read MoreArgentina seeks arrest of Iranian minister over 1994 bombing
Argentina has asked Interpol to issue an arrest notice for the Iranian interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi. The request comes less than two weeks after a court in Argentina held Iran responsible for the 1994 attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed. Mr Vahidi was in Pakistan earlier…
Read More2 members of thwarted Hong Kong bomb plot stole chemicals from university laboratory to make explosives, court hears
Two members of a thwarted bomb plot targeting Hong Kong police and civilians at the height of the 2019 anti-government protests stole chemicals from a local university laboratory to make explosives, the High Court has heard. Prosecutor Juliana Chow Hoi-ling also said on Wednesday the only woman of the seven defendants charged under the United…
Read MoreAfrican leaders spearhead efforts to tackle terrorism across the continent
African leaders discussed anti-terrorism solutions on the continent during a high-level security summit in the Nigerian capital Abuja Monday amid a rise in terror attacks. According to the African Center for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT), Africa witnessed an average of eight terror-related incidents and 44 daily casualties in 2023. The toll included…
Read MoreNew charge added against woman accused of conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid
A federal gun charge has been added to the case against a Baltimore County woman accused of conspiring with a neo-Nazi leader to attack and destroy energy substations around the Baltimore area to “lay [the] city to waste.” Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Catonsville, was initially indicted in February 2023 on charges that she conspired to…
Read MoreNew Haven gang member admits to role in 2 homicides, shootings, federal officials say.
https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/new-haven-gang-member-antwan-hill-plead-guilty-19410921.php NEW HAVEN — A member of a violent street gang appeared in federal court Thursday and admitted to playing a role in two homicides and two shootings that occurred in the city from 2020 to 2022, according to federal officials. Antwan Hill, 21, a member of the Exit 8 street gang, appeared before U.S.…
Read MoreTren de Aragua: Venezuelan gang raises concerns on El Paso, Juárez border
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/crime/2024/04/23/tren-de-aragua-gang-venezuela-on-el-paso-texas-border/73331098007/ A fast-spreading gang that originated in a Venezuelan prison has been detected in the El Paso-Juárez borderlands among the continuing arrival of thousands of migrants seeking political asylum. The vicious Tren de Aragua gang has been described as having “revolutionized crime in Latin America” as it extended into several countries following the exodus of…
Read MoreBorder state lawmaker sounds alarm on bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang entering US: ‘They have no rules’.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-state-lawmaker-sounds-alarm-bloodthirsty-venezuelan-gang-entering-us A congressman whose district is along the southern border is warning about the dangers posed by a bloodthirsty Venezuelan street gang whose presence has grown in the United States amid the ongoing migrant crisis. “This gang in several years is going to be the dominant transnational criminal organization throughout the United States. There’s no doubt in…
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