Posts Tagged ‘domestic extremist threats & trends’
Suspect arrested after FBI uncovers alleged mass shooting plot
A Michigan suspect who authorities say expressed explicit neo-Nazi and antisemitic ideologies online was arrested Friday by the FBI who alleged he stockpiled weapons and was planning a mass shooting. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan charged Seann Pietila, 19, of Pickford, Michigan with transmitting a communication containing a threat…
Read MoreGunman found guilty on all charges Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
Jurors found the man accused of shooting and killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue guilty on all federal charges Friday. Robert Bowers now faces the possibility of the death penalty in the Oct. 27, 2018, shooting in Squirrel Hill. Jurors signaled the court about 11:20 a.m. that they’d reached a verdict. The jury received…
Read MoreMan seeks dismissal of charges in firebombing of anti-abortion group Wisconsin Family Action’s Madison office
The man indicted in the May 2022 firebombing of a prominent anti-abortion group’s office in Madison is seeking to have his case dismissed. An attorney for Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury filed the motion on June 6, arguing the federal arson statute under which Roychowdhury was charged is unconstitutional. “Namely, it exceeds Congress’s commerce clause power and…
Read MoreClosing arguments begin Thursday in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial
Closing arguments are set to start Thursday in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial. The jury could begin deliberating later this afternoon. The final witnesses for this guilt phase of the trial gave powerful testimony. They were two survivors of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting — a police officer and a congregation member. Andrea Wedner was shot…
Read MoreU.S. Marine, 2nd Man Arrested on Federal Charges Stemming from Firebombing of Planned Parenthood Clinic in Orange County
Special agents with the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service this morning arrested two Orange County men on federal charges alleging they used a Molotov cocktail to firebomb a Costa Mesa clinic operated by Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Tibet Ergul, 21, of Irvine, and Chance Brannon, 23, of San Juan Capistrano, an active…
Read More‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski died by suicide in prison medical center, AP sources say
Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” who carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died by suicide, four people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Kaczynski, who was 81 and suffering from late-stage cancer, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Federal Medical Center in…
Read More3-time convicted ‘Boogaloo Boi’ sentenced to eight years in federal prison on gun possession charge
A three-time convicted felon who adheres to the “Boogaloo ideology” is off the streets. Mark Ryan Hauser, 35, was sentenced in a San Antonio federal court on Wednesday for one count of felon possession of a firearm. Hauser proclaimed his Boogaloo status while posting in an online group chat that he wanted to kill law…
Read MoreMan accused of supporting foiled plot to kidnap Michigan governor set to change not-guilty plea
A man accused of supporting a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor plans to change his not-guilty plea, records show. Shawn Michael Fix, 40, of Belleville, is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the scheme to abduct Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 at her northern…
Read MoreSWAT personnel testify in Day 5 of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial
At the start of the second week of testimony in the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the jury heard from SWAT team members, including a police officer and paramedics, who described what they encountered inside the synagogue while the shooting was underway. First on the stand: Officer Michael Saldutte testified that as he entered the Tree…
Read MoreMilitia Members Indicted for Conspiracy to Murder Border Patrol Officers and Attempted Murder of FBI Agents
Two members of the self-styled 2nd American Militia who conspired to go “to war with border patrol” have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a conspiracy to murder Border Patrol officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents who arrested them on the eve of their planned trip to…
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