Posts Tagged ‘explosive devices’
El Salvador says it foiled a plot to plant bombs on the day of President Bukele’s inauguration
El Salvador said authorities have broken up a plot to plant bombs around the country to coincide with President Nayib Bukele’s inauguration on Saturday. The country’s National Police said the plot involved “veterans” of the country’s 1980-1992 civil war, an apparent reference to former leftist guerillas. Police posted photos of small cylinders of explosives with…
Read MoreBombmaking Instructor Who Taught How to Kill Law Enforcement Sentenced to 25 Years
Christopher Arthur, 40, was sentenced today to a total of 300 months’ imprisonment for teaching another individual how to make and use an explosive knowing that the individual intended to use that instruction in the murder or attempted murder of federal law enforcement. In July 2023, he was convicted by a jury on that crime…
Read MoreViolence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military
Violence intensified in southwestern Colombia on Monday when a bomb blast injured six people in the city of Jamundi and an attack by insurgents on a police station in the rural town of Morales left at least two officers dead, according to police. Colombia’s government attributed the attacks to the FARC-EMC a rebel group that…
Read MoreCarson City man facing terrorism charges after being arrested with explosives
A Carson City man is facing terrorism charges related to building explosives. Deputies say they became aware of the situation when they conducted a traffic stop Saturday afternoon on a car driven by 50-year-old Christopher Gorham. A search of his car turned up drug paraphernalia and an explosive device. The Tahoe-Douglas Bomb Squad was called…
Read MoreRussia’s glide bombs devastating Ukraine’s cities on the cheap
Russia is increasingly using “glide bombs” – cheap but highly destructive ordnance – to advance its offensive in Ukraine. More than 200 of them are thought to have been used in just a week to pound Ukraine’s northern town of Vovchansk during Russia’s current cross-border advance near Kharkiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 3,000 such bombs…
Read MoreMan faces multiple charges, including manufacture of a bomb, after explosive devices found at New Iberia motel during drug raid
Authorities in New Iberia said a drug probe led to a bomb scare and the arrest of a man on multiple drug and weapon charges. New Iberia police said Beau Broussard, 38, is charged with manufacture and possession of a bomb, possession of a firearm in the presence of CDS, possession of a firearm by…
Read MoreNew Hampshire Man Sentenced in Harvard University Bomb Extortion Case
A Manchester, N.H., man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for making a series of extortionate bomb threats against Harvard University. The extortionate threats caused the evacuation of Harvard’s Science Center Plaza and surrounding academic buildings, and the controlled detonation of what was later determined to be a hoax device on April 13,…
Read More2 members of thwarted Hong Kong bomb plot stole chemicals from university laboratory to make explosives, court hears
Two members of a thwarted bomb plot targeting Hong Kong police and civilians at the height of the 2019 anti-government protests stole chemicals from a local university laboratory to make explosives, the High Court has heard. Prosecutor Juliana Chow Hoi-ling also said on Wednesday the only woman of the seven defendants charged under the United…
Read MoreOklahoma Man Arrested for Allegedly Throwing Pipe Bomb at Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass.
An Oklahoma man was arrested and charged today for allegedly throwing a pipe bomb at The Satanic Temple (TST) in Salem, Mass. Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, of Perkins, Okla., was charged in a criminal complaint with using an explosive to cause damage to a building used in interstate or foreign commerce. Palmer was arrested this…
Read MoreAlabama 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…
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