Posts Tagged ‘domestic extremist threats & trends’
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for role in Jan. 6 attack
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio to 22 years in prison — the longest sentence to date handed down for any individual charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors had sought 33 years in prison for Tarrio, their harshest recommendation yet for…
Read MoreFBI still searching for Sterling Hall bombing suspect 53 years later
The FBI Milwaukee Field Office released age-progressed photographs on Thursday of Leo Frederick Burt, a suspect in the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall. The bombing of Sterling Hall, a building on the University of Wisconsin campus, happened on August 24, 1970. The FBI says the blast from the explosion, combined with the fire, resulted in…
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 MoreJacksonville shooter, 21, who killed three ‘wrote racist manifestos’
A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of Black people, police have said. Twenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a shop and shooting another two people. US Attorney General Merrick…
Read MoreColorado man accused of killing 10 at supermarket in 2021 is competent for trial, prosecutors say
A Colorado man charged with killing 10 people at a Boulder supermarket in 2021 is competent to proceed toward a trial, prosecutors said Wednesday. The district attorney’s office announced Wednesday that experts at the state mental hospital say Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa no longer has a mental disability that prevents him from helping in his defense and…
Read MoreMaryland Man Sentenced on Felony Charge for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
A Baltimore man was sentenced in the District of Columbia today on a felony charge related to his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to…
Read MoreTrial begins for three men accused in plot to kidnap Michigan governor
A trial for the last three men to face charges in a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer began on Wednesday in state court, where they are accused of terrorism and firearms crimes. Eric Molitor and brothers William and Michael Null each face one count of providing material support for terrorist acts and…
Read MoreJustice Department seeks 33 years in prison for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Jan. 6 case
The Justice Department is seeking 33 years in prison for Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases to emerge from attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents. The sentence, if imposed, would be by far the longest punishment that has been handed down in the…
Read MoreMan Sent To Prison For 10 Years For Setting A Fire At An Illinois Planned Parenthood Clinic
A man who set a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Massengill has admitted using a homemade explosive to set a fire at the Peoria clinic in January, a few days after Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law with additional legal protections…
Read MorePittsburgh jury condemns Tree of Life synagogue killer to death
A federal jury on Wednesday voted to sentence Robert Bowers to death for killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. In June, the jury found Bowers, 50, guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes in a trial held at the U.S. District Court in…
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