Archive for February 11, 2025
California Teenager Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Nationwide Swatting Spree
Alan W. Filion, 18, of Lancaster, California, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for making interstate threats to injure the person of another. According to the plea agreement, from approximately August 2022 to January 2024, Filion made over 375 swatting and threat calls, including calls in which he claimed to have planted bombs…
Read MoreMS-13 gang member with weapons conviction arrested in Maryland
https://www.nottinghammd.com/2025/02/10/ms-13-gang-member-with-weapons-conviction-arrested-in-maryland/ BALTIMORE, MD—An MS-13 gang member convicted of possessing a loaded handgun was arrested in Maryland earlier this month, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. German Ronal Del Cid Carranza, 33, was taken into custody by ICE in Silver Spring on February 4, 2025 after he was arrested by Prince George’s County Police in Sept. 2022. Del Cid was…
Read MoreForeign National Extradited From Germany to Face Charge of Transmitting Threatening Communication
Today, the Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against Igor Lira, 40, a Slovakia national, for allegedly transmitting a threat in interstate or international commerce containing a threat to injure. Lira made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland today after he was extradited from Germany. Erek L. Barron, U.S.…
Read MoreSingapore detains teenage ‘East Asian supremacist’ for planning attacks on Malays, Muslims
An 18-year-old Singaporean student who identified as an “East Asian supremacist” and was radicalised by violent far-right extremist ideologies has been detained under Singapore’s Internal Security Act. Nick Lee Xing Qiu, who is of Chinese ethnicity, had aspired to conduct attacks against Malays and Muslims in Singapore. He believed that the Chinese, Korean and Japanese…
Read MoreFBI searching for man wanted for breaking into a power plant in West Virginia
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking help identifying a man who broke into a West Virginia power plant. The FBI offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of a man who entered a West Virginia power plant in 2023. According to the release, the unknown suspect gained unauthorized…
Read MoreSWAT arrests man suspected of robbing a Utah bank and sending threats to another
A man is accused of robbing a bank and stealing a dollar amount to reference the 9/11 attacks. On Thursday, Unified police and the FBI were called to a robbery that happened at a Chase Bank on 2855 E, 3300 South in Millcreek. Witnesses told investigators that a white man with a long beard left…
Read MoreMassachusetts Man Arrested for Making Violent Threats Against Officials, Private Individuals and Children
A Wilbraham, Mass. man has been arrested and charged for allegedly making numerous violent threats on social media targeting certain officials and their families, private individuals, children and sensitive locations such as shopping malls and an elementary school. Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo, also known as “Jonathan Funwayo Nyawo,” “Michael Jacobs,” “Robert Jacobs,” and “Carl Fields,” 36,…
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