Archive for July 25, 2024
New Jersey Man Sentenced for Series of Violent Assaults on Members of the Orthodox Jewish Community
A New Jersey man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for committing a series of bias-motivated violent assaults on members of the Orthodox Jewish community in and around Lakewood, New Jersey. Dion Marsh, 29, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi…
Read MoreMan Who Attacked Author Salman Rushdie Charged With Supporting Terrorist Group
A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York faces a new charge that he supported a terrorist group. An indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Buffalo on Wednesday charges Hadi Matar with providing material support to Hezbollah, a militant group based in Lebanon and backed…
Read MoreDomestic machete assault leads to discovery of ‘potentially viable explosive device’ in car outside East Harlem NYPD precinct
The NYPD Bomb Squad and Emergency Service Unit responded to the department’s 25th Precinct in East Harlem on Wednesday afternoon after a domestic assault involving a machete led to the discovery of a “potentially viable improvised explosive device” in a car outside the station house. Two men, who are cousins, pulled up to the 25th…
Read MoreOhio Man Sentenced for Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act Violation, Communicating Interstate Threats and Conspiracy
An Ohio man was sentenced today for threatening to destroy a reproductive health services facility in Columbus, Ohio, and for conspiring to commit money laundering. Mohamed Waes, 33, was sentenced to 66 months in prison, three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $273,982.08 in restitution. “This defendant threatened to burn down a…
Read MoreMan admits bombing Minneapolis hair salon, returning year later and vandalizing the shop
A 59-year-old man has admitted that he set off a bomb at a Minneapolis hair salon in 2022 and returned a year later to lob a brick through the store’s window. Michael Allen Francisco pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis to using an explosive to “maliciously damage or destroy” a business following…
Read MoreTurkey Detains Russian Man Suspected Of Car Bombing In Moscow
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on July 24 that Turkish police have detained a Russian man suspected in a car bombing in Moscow earlier in the day that wounded two people, one of whom is reported to be a senior military intelligence officer. The man, identified by Yerlikaya as Yevgeny Serebryakov, a Russian citizen,…
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