Posts Tagged ‘officer safety & awareness’
Man with AR-style pistol arrested at Aetna’s Connecticut headquarters without incident
A man carrying a backpack with an AR-style pistol inside was arrested Thursday after walking into health insurer Aetna’s headquarters in Connecticut, police said. Security guards detained the man without incident shortly after 10 a.m., within 3 minutes after he entered the Hartford building. They held him until city police officers arrived, a spokesperson for…
Read More‘No one would be spared’: Teenage girl’s diary laid out school shooting plan later thwarted by police
Diary entries written by an eighth grader in Oneida County lay out the plans she developed for a mass shooting in her middle school’s cafeteria. The 14-year-old has been charged for a threat against Clinton Middle School, about 9 miles from Utica. The plot was thwarted by the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office after an uninvolved…
Read MoreWhitman High student faces charges after arson, graffiti incidents at Bethesda elementary school
A 16-year-old Walt Whitman High School student was charged Wednesday with vandalism, arson and threats of mass violence after he allegedly lit a shed on fire at another Bethesda school and later vandalized a fence there with graffiti referencing a 2012 mass school shooting, Montgomery County police said Wednesday in a press release. The teen,…
Read MoreOfficials arrest Annapolis man in connection to recovered destructive devices
An Annapolis man is facing multiple charges stemming from the alleged possession of a significant number of explosive devices found in his home. According to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department and the Office of the Fire Marshal, Fire/Arson & Explosives Investigative Bureau (FIB), Lee Ralston, 37, of Annapolis has been charged with multiple counts…
Read MoreMan with machete fatally shot at NYC’s Grand Central after slashing attack, NYPD says
A man with a machete slashed and injured three people at New York City’s Grand Central subway station on Saturday before he was fatally shot by police, officials said. The NYPD said officers encountered the armed man on the 4/5/6 train platform at Grand Central-42nd Street at around 9:40 a.m. after a civilian alerted them…
Read MoreBrooklyn activist pleads guilty to setting fire to 11 NYPD vehicles
A Brooklyn activist with a history of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests pleaded guilty Wednesday to setting fire to 11 empty police vehicles last summer. Jakhi McCray, 22, admitted to the June 12 arson spree, which New York City police officials said caused $800,000 in damages to department vehicles. He faces a mandatory minimum of 5…
Read MorePost Falls man arrested for terroristic threats against police departments
A Post Falls man remains in jail after making terroristic threats against local police departments over the weekend. Ryan McClintock posted videos on Facebook Saturday calling for “gangsters and people not afraid to die” to take over the Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls police departments. He claimed the departments were covering up pedophilia cases at…
Read MoreMan killed by police on I-15 previously convicted for terrorism threats, said he would ‘kill Americans and USA’
The man shot and killed by police on Northbound I-15 on March 27 previously pleaded guilty to threats of terrorism and threatened to ‘kill Americans.” On March 27, shortly before 5:00 p.m. an individual rear ended a Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) vehicle near 4500 S on northbound I-15. That individual, later identified as 29-year-old Sayed…
Read MoreAfter Loud Booms, Authorities Say They Found at Least 25 Explosive Devices in NY Man’s Apartment
Reports of loud booms in a suburban New York neighborhood this week led authorities to an apartment where a man was found to be storing more than two dozen improvised explosive devices, federal prosecutors said. Raymond Elders had a “blueish black chemical residue” on his hands and was holding a lighter when police encountered him…
Read MoreFlorida man sentenced for setting Michigan State Police cruisers on fire
The 41-year-old Florida man charged after he vandalized multiple police cruisers in 2023 was sentenced Tuesday. James Itani, 41, was sentenced in Chippewa County Circuit Court on Tuesday. Itani was arrested in September 2023 and was charged with terrorism, third-degree arson and several counts of assault with intent to murder. This is after Itani set…
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