Posts Tagged ‘fire & arson’

A 73-year-old man is facing federal charges after he rammed a car into a planned abortion clinic in an eastern Illinois city and also was trying to set the building on fire, authorities announced Tuesday. Police arrived at the clinic site in Danville about 4:30 a.m. Saturday to find Philip J. Buyno of Prophetstown, Illinois,…

A 42-year-old man was arrested in Wednesday’s suspected arson at a mosque in St. Paul, police announced. Said Ntamugabumwe, 42, was booked into the Ramsey County Jail on suspicion of first-degree arson in the fire at Oromo American Twhid Islamic Center. The religious center — located at 430 Dale Street North — was empty when…

St. Paul police are investigating after the latest in a string of attacks on mosques in the Twin Cities. Around 7 a.m. a person wearing a hoodie and a mask is captured by a surveillance camera entering the Masjid Al Sunnah Mosque’s parking lot on Pederson Street in St. Paul. The person then threw a…