Posts Tagged ‘domestic extremist threats & trends’
Alabama man charged with detonating explosive device outside state attorney general’s office
An Alabama man was arrested and indicted this week on charges that he detonated an explosive device outside the Alabama attorney general’s office in late February, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Irondale, was charged with malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device, the…
Read MoreMiddletown ‘sovereign citizen’ gets prison for guns inside Langhorne-Yardley Road home
A “sovereign citizen” who rejects government authority and drew the attention of Middletown police, neighbors and motorists passing his Langhorne house was sentenced from 28 to 56 years in state prison Wednesday for illegally possessing a cache of high-powered firearms. At his trial in Doylestown, Bucks County, authorities testified about discovering the high-powered firearms that…
Read MoreCalifornia man sentenced to life for ‘boogaloo movement’ killing of federal security guard
A Northern California man who was part of the loosely organized anti-government “ boogaloo movement ” was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the shooting death of a federal security guard and wounding of another. Robert Allen Justus was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the Bay Area News…
Read MoreMan sentenced for plans to execute mass shooting at East Lansing synagogue
A 20-year-old man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for violently threatening to kill Jewish people in June 2023, according to a news release. The FBI found evidence that showed Sean Pietila of Pickford Township “had identified a Jewish synagogue in East Lansing and a specific date in March 2024” to…
Read MoreDefendants in US terrorism and kidnapping case scheduled for sentencing in New Mexico
A U.S. judge is expected to hand down sentences Wednesday for five defendants in a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that stemmed from the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia in late 2017 that ended months later with a raid on a squalid compound in northern New Mexico. The sentencing hearing comes…
Read MoreAn explosive device detonated outside the Alabama attorney general’s office over the weekend
Authorities in Alabama are investigating after an explosive device detonated over the weekend outside the office of state Attorney General Steve Marshall. The explosion happened a day after Marshall’s office said he had no plans to prosecute IVF providers or families following an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that said embryos are people. In a statement…
Read MoreViolent OC white supremacist group founder back in federal custody after brief release from lockup
The purported founder of a Southern California-based militant white supremacist group was re-arrested on Thursday — the same day that 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges reversed his release from lockup. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney dismissed the criminal case Robert Rundo was facing, because, Carney determined, federal prosecutors engaged in “selective…
Read MoreCharges Against Two White Nationalists Are Dismissed as ‘Selective Prosecution’
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed riot charges against two members of a neo-Nazi street gang who had attacked counterprotesters at several pro-Trump rallies in California in 2017, saying that the government had behaved improperly by neglecting to bring charges against left-wing activists who had also acted violently at the same events. The ruling by…
Read MoreCourt upholds life sentences for Atlanta Olympics and Birmingham abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph
Eric Rudolph, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for fatal bombings at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and a Birmingham abortion clinic will not get a chance at a new sentence, an appeals court ruled Monday. A three-judge of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that Rudolph remains bound to the terms of…
Read MoreTennessee man who was working with militias planned to act as a sniper and attack Southern border, feds say
A Tennessee man who planned to travel to the southern border with an arsenal of weapons and explosives to “stir up the hornet’s nest” was arrested Monday, federal officials say. Paul Faye, who told undercover agents that the U.S. was “being invaded” by illegal immigrants, has been charged with selling an unregistered firearm suppressor, according…
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