Posts Tagged ‘explosive devices’
Domestic machete assault leads to discovery of ‘potentially viable explosive device’ in car outside East Harlem NYPD precinct
The NYPD Bomb Squad and Emergency Service Unit responded to the department’s 25th Precinct in East Harlem on Wednesday afternoon after a domestic assault involving a machete led to the discovery of a “potentially viable improvised explosive device” in a car outside the station house. Two men, who are cousins, pulled up to the 25th…
Read MoreMan admits bombing Minneapolis hair salon, returning year later and vandalizing the shop
A 59-year-old man has admitted that he set off a bomb at a Minneapolis hair salon in 2022 and returned a year later to lob a brick through the store’s window. Michael Allen Francisco pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis to using an explosive to “maliciously damage or destroy” a business following…
Read MoreTurkey Detains Russian Man Suspected Of Car Bombing In Moscow
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on July 24 that Turkish police have detained a Russian man suspected in a car bombing in Moscow earlier in the day that wounded two people, one of whom is reported to be a senior military intelligence officer. The man, identified by Yerlikaya as Yevgeny Serebryakov, a Russian citizen,…
Read MoreSpanish man sentenced to 18 years for letter bombs over Ukraine war
A Spanish court has sentenced a man to 18 years in prison over letter bombs sent to Spain’s prime minister and the US and Ukrainian embassies in 2022. Pompeyo González Pascual, 76, who opposed western support for Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, was found guilty of terrorism and manufacturing explosives by Spain’s top criminal court, the…
Read MoreUK Man with Nazi views encouraged terrorism, trial told
An alleged far-right extremist talked online about making firearms with 3D printers and buying materials for them from Tesco, a court was told. Gabriel Budasz, 24, born in Poland but resides in Weston-super-Mare, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of posting bomb-making tutorials online and encouraging terrorism. Prosecutor Maryam Syed KC said Mr…
Read MoreFlorida man charged after state police find explosives during traffic stop in Monroe County
A man is locked up after state police found several explosive devices in his car in Monroe County. State police conducted a traffic stop Friday night on I-80 East in Tobyhanna Township. Troopers found Juan Cosme, 46, of Frostproof, Florida, driving under the influence and, after searching his vehicle, discovered 13 ‘improvised explosive devices.’ Cosme…
Read MoreMan arrested for allegedly planting explosive device next to San Jose business
Police arrested a man who allegedly planted an improvised explosive device at a business in San Jose last week, authorities said Tuesday. San Jose police said officers responded at 10:06 a.m. on July 3 to a report of a bomb threat at a business in the 1300 block of Ridder Park Drive just north of…
Read MoreMan arrested with explosives near Paris airport was part of vast Russian sabotage campaign
The building targeted by the Russian-Ukrainian man, who was wounded on June 3 while making an explosive device in his hotel room, located near the Paris region’s Charles de Gaulle international airport, was not a strategic one. Le Monde has learned the initial results of the investigation into the man indicate that he was preparing…
Read MoreHigh school damaged by ‘incendiary device’ detonation; 20-year-old man arrested after standoff
A man accused of starting a fire at Piqua High School is in jail after a SWAT standoff. Grady Egerton, 20, has been accused of creating an “explosive device that he used to catch Piqua High School on fire, according to Miami County Municipal Court documents. As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, a…
Read MoreMan sentenced to prison for leaving pipe bomb in pickup near Baltimore County middle school
A man who built what prosecutors described as a sophisticated pipe bomb and left the device inside his pickup near Pine Grove Middle School in Baltimore County was sentenced on Thursday to serve nine years in prison. “The facts of this case are terrifying,” Baltimore County Circuit Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr. said as he…
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