Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)
Man Indicted for Fake Bomb Threats
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Matthew Cook, age 33, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of 18 U.S.C. § 1038(a)(1) for falsely conveying on two occasions that there was a bomb at a store in Parker, Colorado. According to the indictment, on or about…
Read MoreNelson Co. [KY] man charged after police find explosives, murder plans
A Nelson County man was arrested and charged Monday after police found dangerous devices and plans for murder in his home. On Sunday evening, the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint of a man using police equipment to stop a vehicle earlier that day. Police then executed a search warrant at a home on…
Read MorePolice arrest woman with Islamic extremist sympathies who planted explosive device
Polish authorities say that they have arrested and pressed charges against a 38-year-old Polish woman with Islamic extremist sympathies who planted an explosive device on a street in central Warsaw earlier this month. There were no injuries. Police said in a statement published on Monday that the woman placed the device in Warsaw on the…
Read MoreMan armed with explosives outside UK Hospital pleads guilty
A Versailles man has pleaded guilty for his role in showing up to the University of Kentucky Hospital back in 2021 while being armed with explosives. Federal officials say 46-year-old Bryan Carroll pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of carrying an explosive during the…
Read MoreHezbollah says attacks Israeli troops with drones, artillery, missiles
The Israel-Lebanon border has seen daily exchanges of fire since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7. Hezbollah fighters targeted soldiers west of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel “with three attack drones”, the Iran-backed group said in a statement, adding shortly after that it had also targeted troops in the area with artillery fire. Both…
Read MoreGerman police arrest 18-year-old over far-right attack plot
An 18-year-old man is in detention on suspicion of plotting a violent attack, the criminal police office (LKA) for the German state of Hesse and the public prosecutors office in Frankfurt said in a joint statment issued on Monday. “The suspicion of preparing a serious state-endangering act of violence and of violating firearms laws stands…
Read MoreShooter wounds 4 at Walmart near Dayton, Ohio, before dying of self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say
Four people were wounded after a shooter opened fire at a Walmart near Dayton, Ohio, before taking his own life Monday night, police said. The suspect, described only as male, entered the store around 8:35 p.m. ET and shot four people before turning the gun on himself, Beavercreek police said. He died of an apparent…
Read MoreEthnic fighting kills 32 in disputed region straddling Sudan, South Sudan
Attacks by rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group in an area claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan killed at least 32 people over the weekend, a local official said on Monday. Deadly violence is common in the oil-rich Abyei region, where Twic Dinka from South Sudan’s neighbouring Warrap State are locked in a…
Read MoreTerrorist Designations of Iran-aligned Militia Groups
The Department of State is today designating Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS) and its Secretary General Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. KSS terrorist activity has threatened the lives of both U.S. and Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS personnel in Iraq and Syria. Concurrently, the Department of the Treasury is designating six individuals…
Read MorePortsmouth man, 19, charged with weapons and terror offences
A 19-year-old man has been charged with attempting to manufacture a weapon and possessing documents that could be used for preparing an act of terrorism. Jack Robinson, of Hawthorne Crescent, Portsmouth, Hampshire, was charged on Saturday. He is accused of several offences under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and section 5 of the…
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