Archive for July 2024
Ohio 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,…
Read MoreMan arrested after British soldier was stabbed in attack near barracks
A masked attacker on a moped stabbed and seriously injured a British soldier in daylight near a barracks in southeast England, witnesses and police said Wednesday. Police said a 24-year-old man was arrested soon after on suspicion of attempted murder. There was no immediate word on a motive. The local Kent Police force, rather than…
Read MoreSpanish man sentenced to 18 years for letter bombs over Ukraine war
A Spanish court has sentenced a man to 18 years in prison over letter bombs sent to Spain’s prime minister and the US and Ukrainian embassies in 2022. Pompeyo González Pascual, 76, who opposed western support for Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, was found guilty of terrorism and manufacturing explosives by Spain’s top criminal court, the…
Read MoreNevada Man Arrested and Indicted for Threatening to Murder Federal Officials and State Employees
A grand jury returned a 22-count indictment charging Spencer Christjencody Gear, 32, of Las Vegas, Nevada, with threatening to assault and murder federal officials, including federal judges, and state employees in Washington, D.C., New York, New Jersey and Montana. “The citizens we rely on to serve the public must be able to do their jobs…
Read MoreGermany Carries Out Raids And Bans A Group Accused Of Links To Iran And Support For Hezbollah
The German government on Wednesday banned an organization accused of being an “outpost” of Iran’s theocracy, promoting the ideology of its leadership and supporting Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group. Police raided 53 properties around the country, including a prominent mosque in Hamburg. The ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg, or IZH, and five suborganizations around Germany…
Read MoreFrench police arrest Russian suspected of plotting Paris Olympics ‘destabilisation’
French police on Tuesday arrested a Russian man suspected of plotting acts of “destabilisation” during the Paris Olympics, prosecutors said. The man, born in 1984, was held in custody and placed under judicial investigation on suspicion of “organising events likely to lead to destabilisation during the Olympic Games”, a source in the state prosecution service,…
Read MoreSuspected Gunman In Croatia Nursing Home Killings Charged On 11 Counts, Including Murder
A suspected gunman in a mass shooting at a nursing home in Croatia is facing 11 criminal charges, including murder, after he was accused of killing six people, including his own mother, and wounding as many more, police said on Tuesday. The carnage stunned Daruvar, a spa town of some 8,500 people in central Croatia…
Read More3 Army Reserve Officers Disciplined After Reservist Killed 18 People Last October In Maine
Three Army Reserve officers were disciplined for dereliction of duty in the aftermath of a rampage in which a reservist killed 18 people in Maine, according to an Army report that cited communication failures within the chain of command, and between military and civilian hospitals, among other shortcomings revealed during an investigation. The Army review,…
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