Posts Tagged ‘fire & arson’
Man Sent To Prison For 10 Years For Setting A Fire At An Illinois Planned Parenthood Clinic
A man who set a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Massengill has admitted using a homemade explosive to set a fire at the Peoria clinic in January, a few days after Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law with additional legal protections…
Read MoreMolotov cocktail thrown at Swedish embassy in Beirut amid Quran-burning tensions
An assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at Sweden’s embassy in Beirut, causing no casualties, Stockholm’s foreign minister and a diplomatic source said Thursday, amid anger over recent Quran desecrations. “We confirm that there was a Molotov cocktail thrown at the facade of our embassy last evening, which did not explode,” a diplomatic source at the…
Read More66-year-old man charged with using homemade explosive device to set multiple grass fires
Arson investigators say 66 year-old Frank Andrew Howell intentionally set at least two grass fires. On the morning of Sunday, August 6, a report came in of a ‘lifted’ white Chevy truck with chrome wheels along FM 1516 near a grass fire in Converse. The witness identified the driver as Frank Andrew Howell. The witness…
Read MoreTexas church firebombed weeks after anti-LGBTQ YouTubers disrupt service
An LGBTQ-friendly church in Texas was firebombed this weekend, weeks after anti-LGBTQ YouTubers posted a video trolling churchgoers at a Sunday service. News of the bombing comes the Texas GOP’s ongoing legislative and rhetorical onslaught aimed at restricting LGBTQ rights in the Lone Star State. The Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano was damaged after…
Read MoreFederal Grand Jury Charges Three in Molotov Cocktail Attack Last Year on Planned Parenthood Clinic
Two California men now named in a four-count federal grand jury indictment were arraigned earlier today on charges alleging they conducted a firebombing attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Orange County in March 2022. The two defendants arraigned today are Chance Brannon, 23, of San Juan Capistrano, an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton,…
Read MoreWoman who investigators say burned a Wyoming abortion clinic pleads guilty to arson
An abortion opponent who told investigators that anxiety and nightmares about plans for Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years led her to break into and burn the facility pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Thursday. U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson accepted Lorna Roxanne Green’s agreement with prosecutors at a change-of-plea hearing. Green, 22,…
Read MoreMan Faces Arson Charge After Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktails at Reno Church
Reno Fire investigators have arrested a man after he allegedly threw Molotov cocktails through the windows of a church near Downtown Reno. Fire investigators have arrested 29-year-old Mason Thoyre, who is now being charged with first degree arson. Reno firefighters responded to a fire at the Living Stones Church at 445 South Virginia Street, just…
Read More2 Birmingham firefighters shot in potentially targeted attack, suspect at large: Police
Two firefighters have been shot inside a Birmingham, Alabama, fire station in what police say may be a targeted attack. Both firefighters were hospitalized in serious condition after the shooting, which took place at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Birmingham police told reporters. The suspect and motive are unknown, police said, adding that it’s “extremely unusual…
Read MoreMan accused of terrorism over fire at South African Parliament says he “burned it intentionally”
A man facing terrorism charges over a fire that badly damaged South Africa’s Parliament building last year said in a courtroom outburst on Thursday that he “burned it intentionally.” Shouting and pointing his finger, Zandile Mafe said he was going to “burn it more” if the Parliament was not moved from Cape Town to either…
Read MoreState Dept. condemns fire at San Francisco Indian consulate; 2nd attack since March
The U.S. State Department on Monday condemned a fire set over the weekend outside the Indian consulate in San Francisco. Fire crews were called about 2 a.m. Sunday to the Consulate General of India in the 500 block of Arguello Boulevard, where they found a smoldering debris fire on the sidewalk. The fire damaged the…
Read More