Posts Tagged ‘insider threat’
Former OKC Water Department Employee Charged With Terrorism Hoax After Allegedly Making Threats
A former Oklahoma City water department employee has been charged for allegedly making threatening remarks on social media aimed at the city’s water supply. Oklahoma County prosecutors charged Matthew Duffy, 34, this week with one count of uttering a terrorism hoax. They believe Duffy could sabotage the city’s water supply. City officials told police that…
Read MoreU.S. Army Soldier Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges for Attempting to Help ISIS Conduct Deadly Ambush on U.S. Troops
An Ohio man today pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military service members based on his efforts to help the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to attack and kill U.S. soldiers in the Middle East. Cole Bridges, aka Cole Gonzales,…
Read MoreRecruit fatally shoots 2 SDF instructors, hurts 1 at Japan gun range
A Ground Self-Defense Force recruit shot three instructors, two of whom were killed and another seriously injured, on Wednesday during a live-fire training exercise at the force’s firing range in central Japan, the GSDF said. The new recruit, an 18-year-old male, was arrested at the site following the incident that occurred at around 9:10 a.m.…
Read More[CA] Kern High School District Employee Charged with Federal Explosive Offenses
A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Angelo Jackson Mendiver, 26, of Bakersfield, an employee of the Kern High School District, charging him with conspiring to commit offenses against the United States; engaging in manufacturing and dealing in explosive materials; two counts of mailing an explosive device; improper storage of explosives; and…
Read MoreRobert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, found dead in prison
Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent turned spy whom the bureau describes as the most damaging in its history, was found dead in his prison cell on Monday, U.S. authorities said. Hanssen, 79, was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over…
Read MoreTrial set to begin in Russian espionage case against Hopkins doctor, US Army doctor
A federal trial is set to begin Monday in Baltimore for an Army physician and her anesthesiologist wife who are accused of conspiring to give Russia medical information to help its invasion of Ukraine. Maj. Jamie Lee Henry, a doctor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and her wife Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist at Johns…
Read MoreJudge rules suspected Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira will remain jailed before trial
A federal judge ruled Friday that Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified Pentagon documents online, will remain in federal custody pending his trial. Magistrate Judge David Hennessy of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts granted the government’s motion to detain Teixeira, denying the request from Teixeira’s lawyer to release him on…
Read MoreDSCC Security Contractor Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threat of Campaign Office
A former Democratic Senatorial Committee Campaign (DSCC) security contractor pleaded guilty to threatening to bomb the Athens-Clarke County DSCC headquarters while the U.S. Senators from Georgia were in town for campaign events. Jessica Diane Higginbotham aka Jessica Harriod aka Jessica Jones, 35, of Elberton, Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count of communicating a bomb today…
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