Posts Tagged ‘explosive devices’
Man who threatened he had ‘C-4’ outside Walker Trump rally arraigned
A Kent County man is facing multiple felony charges following his arrest Friday near a Trump rally in Walker, Michigan. Nauta is accused of driving through a security checkpoint near the Trump rally at FALK Production and telling officers that he had C-4 and that it was “the real deal.” Court documents claim that he…
Read MoreQueens DA staffer tried to make a bomb to blow up migrant shelter: police
A paralegal at a New York City district attorney’s office has been arrested after he attempted to make an explosive to bomb a migrant shelter located across from his apartment, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. Police said Derek Klever, a 27-year-old who worked as a trial preparation assistant at the Queens District Attorney’s…
Read MoreMan Who Set Off Explosion At California Courthouse Had A Criminal Case There
A 20-year-old man tossed an explosive device into the California courthouse where he was about to be arraigned on a gun charge and the explosion left five people with minor injuries and shut down the court complex and other nearby city buildings, police said. The explosion occurred Wednesday morning in Santa Maria, a city of…
Read MorePhilly teen hoped to make bombs for terror group, planned LGBTQ parade attack, officials say
Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, provided an update to a case involving a teen boy who, officials claim, communicated with a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda and allegedly purchased materials online in an effort to obtain weapons of mass destruction. During an event on Wednesday morning, First Assistant District Attorney Robert Listenbee said Muhyyee-ud-din…
Read MoreExploding Hezbollah Pagers In Apparent Israeli Attack Made By Hungarian Company, Taiwanese Firm Says
A company based in Hungary was responsible for manufacturing the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah’s communications network, another firm whose brand was used on the devices said Wednesday. Pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously a day earlier in Lebanon and Syria, killing at…
Read MoreFormer University of Chicago student charged with concealing bomb-making in dorm room
A college student has been charged with lying to authorities after triggering an explosion in his dorm room at the University of Chicago. The explosion happened in January 2023 on the sixth floor of a university building, authorities said. Authorities believe the former UChicago student Aram Brunson, a 21-year-old man from Massachusetts, is currently living…
Read MoreFBI discovered a DHS document describing improvised explosive devices during investigation of Trump’s would-be assassin
Among the documents Donald Trump’s would-be-assassin studied while formulating his plans for an attack on the former president was a public document from the Department of Homeland Security, describing different kinds of improvised explosive devices and the number of explosives needed to inflict casualties over certain distances, a senior law enforcement official told CNN. The…
Read MoreNew York man charged with weapon of mass destruction threat at Charleston, SC airport
A New York man and self-proclaimed internet “troll” was arrested Saturday at the Charleston International Airport for telling police he “had a bomb and a strap” in his possession, an incident report states. A “strap” is a slang term for a firearm. Thomas Anthony Brienza, 20, of Centereach, New York, was charged with possession or…
Read MoreATF and FBI assisting Columbus, OH fire in investigation into suspected pipe bomb explosion
A suspected pipe bomb exploded and set a parked pickup truck on fire Tuesday afternoon on Columbus’ South Side. No one was injured in the explosion and fire reported at 1:23 p.m. Tuesday behind a home on the 2300 block of South 6th Street, Columbus police said. The pickup was believed to be parked and…
Read MoreAlabama Man Pleads Guilty to Detonating an Explosive Device Outside of the Alabama Attorney General’s Office
Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Irondale, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court to the malicious use of an explosive device. “This defendant built a bomb using nails and screws as shrapnel and detonated it outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, endangering a public institution and members of the community,” said Attorney General Merrick B.…
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