Posts Tagged ‘fire & arson’
Man accused of setting fire to Line 5 subway train indicted for attempted murder, arson
Prosecutors indicted the man accused of setting fire to a subway train on Seoul Subway Line 5 in May, putting the lives of over 160 passengers at risk, on charges of attempted murder and arson. The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office’s task force handling the arson case said Wednesday it indicted the 67-year-old, surnamed Won,…
Read MoreCzech authorities detain 5 teens over online radicalization by IS and charge 2 with terror plot
Czech authorities have detained five teenagers for being radicalized online by the militant Islamic State group and charged two of them with terror-related crimes over an attempt to set fire to a synagogue, officials said Wednesday. Bretislav Brejcha, the director of the Czech counterterrorism, extremism and cybercrime department, said most of the suspects are under…
Read MorePolice identify suspect they are looking for in torching of NYPD vehicles in Brooklyn
Police say the suspect they are looking for in the burning of nearly a dozen NYPD vehicles in Brooklyn last week is no stranger to law enforcement. The search continues for Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, who has been arrested several times before at protests in the city. Mayor Eric Adams said the NYPD has linked the June…
Read MoreMan arrested, accused of throwing Molotov cocktail at DHS building in Grand Island
A man was lodged in jail after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at a Department of Homeland Security building in Grand Island. According to a federal criminal complaint, federal employees of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement had left the DHS building at 703 S. Webb Road after work at 11 a.m. on…
Read MoreNorthern Ireland leisure centre hosting immigrants attacked on third night of violence
Masked youths in Northern Ireland on Wednesday set fire to a leisure centre that had been sheltering migrant families, but a third night of anti-immigrant violence was smaller in scale in the primary flashpoint of Ballymena. Violence first flared on Monday after two 14-year-old boys were arrested and appeared in court, accused of a serious…
Read More5G mast in west Belfast deliberately set on fire
A fire at a 5G mast in west Belfast was deliberate, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said. Firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze on Stewartstown Road after it broke out at about 00:30 BST on Wednesday. It followed a series of arson attacks on 5G masts in west Belfast, with the PSNI…
Read More11 NYPD vehicles set ablaze, undetonated explosives found in Brooklyn
The NYPD is searching for a masked suspect seen fleeing the scene after at least 11 police vehicles went up in flames early Thursday morning. When officers went to investigate, they found undetonated explosive devices, similar to M-80s, on three other cars around the charred NYPD vehicles in Brooklyn. The vehicles caught fire in the…
Read MoreCzech court sentences Colombian to eight years in prison for Russia-linked arson attack
A court in Prague has sentenced a Colombian citizen to eight years in prison on Monday for conducting an arson attack and planning another one, in a case which authorities believe may be linked to the Kremlin. A court in the Czech Republic on Monday sentenced a Colombian national to eight years in prison for…
Read MoreRhode Island Man Sentenced for Setting Fires Around the Exterior of a Church and Assaulting Federal Officers
Kevin Colantonio, 36, pleaded guilty in February 2025 to malicious damage by means of fire, obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs, and two counts of assault on a federal officer. He was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr., to more than six years in federal prison. He intentionally…
Read MoreSuspect in Boulder antisemitic terror attack charged with 118 counts including attempted murder
Boulder County’s district attorney on Thursday charged the suspect in the Pearl Street Mall terror attack with more than 100 criminal counts related to the antisemitic firebombing that injured 15 people and a dog. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian immigrant who officials say was living in the U.S. illegally, faces 118 charges, including dozens…
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