Posts Tagged ‘domestic extremist threats & trends’
Pittsburgh 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…
Read MoreNazi propaganda, explosive device, ammunition seized in L.A. raid, prosecutors say
Authorities say a dangerous member of a white supremacist group is off the streets after local and federal agents raided his home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley on Thursday. Ryan Scott Bradford, 34, faces charges of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of ammunition, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday.…
Read MoreTexas church firebombed weeks after anti-LGBTQ YouTubers disrupt service
An LGBTQ-friendly church in Texas was firebombed this weekend, weeks after anti-LGBTQ YouTubers posted a video trolling churchgoers at a Sunday service. News of the bombing comes the Texas GOP’s ongoing legislative and rhetorical onslaught aimed at restricting LGBTQ rights in the Lone Star State. The Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano was damaged after…
Read MoreFive Patriot Front members convicted of conspiracy to riot in Coeur d’Alene
A jury deliberated for a little over an hour before convicting five Patriot Front members Thursday for conspiring to disrupt a Pride celebration last June in downtown Coeur d’Alene. Devin Center, James J. Johnson, Forrest Rankin, Robert Whitted and Derek Smith stood in suits behind their attorneys and showed no emotion after a clerk read…
Read MoreWoman who investigators say burned a Wyoming abortion clinic pleads guilty to arson
An abortion opponent who told investigators that anxiety and nightmares about plans for Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years led her to break into and burn the facility pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Thursday. U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson accepted Lorna Roxanne Green’s agreement with prosecutors at a change-of-plea hearing. Green, 22,…
Read MoreMiddlesex County Man Admits Communicating Threats to Attack Synagogue
A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man today admitted transmitting via the internet a manifesto containing threats to attack a synagogue and Jewish people, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Omar Alkattoul, 19, of Sayreville, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with…
Read MoreWhite supremacist to spend rest of life in prison for 2019 Walmart mass shooting
The white supremacist who fatally shot 23 people at an El Paso Walmart will remain behind bars for the rest of his life after being sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences. Patrick Crusius, 24, was sentenced Friday morning to life in prison on each of 90 federal charges he pleaded guilty to earlier this year…
Read MoreEl Paso Walmart gunman’s federal hate crimes sentencing hearing begins Wednesday
The sentencing hearing for the El Paso Walmart gunman on dozens of federal hate crimes and firearms charges is set to begin Wednesday. Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty in February to the racist 2021 massacre that killed 23 people. Crusius had initially pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, but requested a rearraignment hearing after…
Read MoreSenate panel finds more pre-Jan. 6 intelligence failures by FBI, DHS
A new Senate committee report sharply criticizes the FBI and Department of Homeland Security for what it says were failures to believe the intelligence tips they were receiving in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — offering fresh examples, nearly 2½ years later, of warnings and information that went…
Read MoreKansas Man Facing Federal Charges For Making Online Threats Toward Nashville Pride Event
A Kansas man has been indicted for making online threats to commit acts of violence at an upcoming Nashville Pride event, announced United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis. An indictment unsealed this morning charges Joshua Hensley, aka Josh Echo, 25, of Hoisington, Kansas, with two counts of transmitting an interstate threat related to the upcoming…
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