Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)
Iraq court sentences 5 people to life in prison in killing of US citizen, officials say
An Iraqi criminal court convicted five men and sentenced them to life in prison on Thursday in the killing of a U.S. citizen in Baghdad last year, officials said. Stephen Edward Troell, 45, a native of Tennessee, was fatally shot in his car in November by assailants as he pulled up to the street where…
Read MoreFinnish Border Officials Manage to Detain Russian Terrorism Suspect Due to Facial Recognition Software
Thanks to facial recognition technology, Finnish Border Guards have identified and stopped a Russian citizen traveling illegally through the country. A 36-year-old man who goes by the name of Voislav Torden was detained into custody on suspicion of committing terrorism offenses in Ukraine, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. According to Yle, the Finnish news website, the suspect was…
Read MoreWeston-super-Mare man faces trial on terrorism charges
An alleged far-right extremist has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of having and sharing a terrorist video about explosives. Gabriel Budasz, 23, was charged on 4 August with possession and dissemination of a terrorist document. The charges related to a video about the explosive TATP and an improvised explosive device, which was allegedly shared…
Read MoreProud Boy Joe Biggs receives 17 years in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case
Joe Biggs, a Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says “served as an instigator and leader” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on Thursday. It is among the longest sentences in Capitol riot cases. The record is the 18-year sentence…
Read MoreMaryland Man Pleads Guilty to Issuing Threats of Violence to an LGBTQI+ Advocacy Group
A Maryland man pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court in Baltimore to a federal crime for using a telephone to threaten a group that advocates for LGBTQI+ people. According to court documents, on the evening of March 28, the victim organization received a threatening voicemail from Adam Michael Nettina, 34, of West Friendship. The…
Read MoreBrooklyn Homes mass shooting: 173-page report details Baltimore’s response to block party violence
The 173-page report detailing Baltimore City’s response to the Brooklyn Homes mass shooting, the largest in the city’s history, reveals acts of heroism by officers who saved lives. That includes newly-released police body-worn camera video. But it also documents failures to properly respond to the large, unpermitted event until it was too late, including warnings…
Read MorePolice say the teenage suspect in German knife attack may have intended to set fire to a school
A former student who wounded an eight-year-old boy with a knife at a school in eastern Germany may have intended to set the building on fire, police said Thursday. The 16-year-old suspect set himself alight after the knife attack in Bischofswerda, east of Dresden, on Wednesday. The flames were extinguished and he was arrested. The…
Read MoreFBI announces it has dismantled global network of hacked computers used in major fraud scheme
The FBI and European law enforcement agencies dismantled a massive network of hacked computers that had been used to defraud victims of hundreds of millions of dollars, agencies announced Tuesday. The Justice Department seized over $8 million in cryptocurrency from the hackers and removed their malicious code from an unspecified number of infected computers in…
Read MoreAt least 13 killed in attack at Congo gold quarry
Unidentified militiamen killed at least 13 people in an overnight attack on a gold quarry in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an army spokesperson and a civil society leader said. The attack took place late on Monday at the privately owned Shaba mining quarry in Aru territory, near the Ugandan border in Ituri province, said…
Read MoreFighting in Ethiopia’s Amhara kills at least 183, UN says
Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and militiamen in the Amhara region has killed at least 183 people, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday, providing the most comprehensive independent death toll to date of the month-long conflict. More than 1,000 people have been arrested nationwide, many of them reported to be young people of ethnic…
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