Archive for April 2024
Rockville student arrested for threatening to shoot up elementary school in 129-page manifesto
An 18-year-old high school student has been arrested for threatening to commit a school shooting. Alex Ye was arrested Thursday following a joint investigation by the Montgomery County Police Department and the FBI. The investigation began when FBI agents were notified by MCPD about a 129-page “manifesto” written by Ye. In the document, Ye writes…
Read MoreWayne County Kroger employee charged with terrorism after threatening to shoot staff, customers
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office has charged a Garden City man with making terrorist threats against his fellow employees and customers at a Kroger store. The incident occurred at 9 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, at a Kroger on North Middlebelt Road just north of Warren Road in Westland. There, 37-year-old Jonathan Lee Stieber allegedly…
Read MoreMan on terrorist watchlist was dropped from program that monitors migrants
When an Afghan national on the FBI terrorist watchlist was arrested last Thursday after having spent nearly a year in the U.S., immigration officials said he had been enrolled in a program that tracked his location via ankle monitor, mobile app or telephone. But the man’s participation in the monitoring program, known as Alternatives to…
Read MoreOklahoma Man Arrested for Allegedly Throwing Pipe Bomb at Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass.
An Oklahoma man was arrested and charged today for allegedly throwing a pipe bomb at The Satanic Temple (TST) in Salem, Mass. Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, of Perkins, Okla., was charged in a criminal complaint with using an explosive to cause damage to a building used in interstate or foreign commerce. Palmer was arrested this…
Read MoreGermany arrests two for alleged military sabotage plot on behalf of Russia
Two German-Russian nationals have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting sabotage attacks, including on U.S. military facilities, in a serious effort to undermine military support for Ukraine, officials said on Thursday. Authorities have searched the homes and workplaces of the two suspects who stand accused of working for a foreign secret service. One…
Read MoreUS 911 emergency call line outage resolved in some areas
Emergency services on the 911 telephone call line were restored late on Wednesday in parts of the United States, officials said, following a widespread outage across all of South Dakota and in parts of Nebraska, Nevada and Texas. Officials in South Dakota, Nevada and Las Vegas said 911 services had been restored, but without identifying…
Read MoreDallas doctor convicted in IV bag tampering that led to death and cardiac emergencies
A Dallas anesthesiologist was convicted Friday for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at a surgical center where he worked, which led to the death of a coworker and caused cardiac emergencies for several patients, federal prosecutors said. A jury convicted Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., 60, of four counts…
Read MoreFresno Fire believes fires at Armenian cemetery arson, not hate crime
Fresno Fire is investigating multiple suspected arson fires at the Ararat Armenian Cemetery near Roeding Park this past weekend. The fires resulted in the destruction of multiple cypress trees, those of which were a minimum of 60 years old. They also created fears of a possible hate crime days away from the Commemoration of the…
Read MoreRussia-linked hacking group suspected of carrying out cyberattack on Texas water facility, cybersecurity firm says
A hacking group with ties to the Russian government is suspected of carrying out a cyberattack in January that caused a tank at a Texas water facility to overflow, experts from US cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Wednesday. The hack in the small town of Muleshoe, in north Texas, coincided with at least two other towns…
Read MoreNATO commander warns critical undersea cables and pipes ‘under threat’ from Russia and other foes
Important deep sea cables and pipelines are at risk, warns NATO’s Allied Maritime Command’s deputy commander Vice Adm. Didier Maleterre. “It’s a security issue for nearly 1 billion NATO-nation civilians. We need to be protected and well supplied by our vital undersea infrastructures,” Maleterre told the Guardian on April 16. NATO allies have detected several…
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