Posts Tagged ‘threats to life’
Oregon Man Pleads Guilty in Swatting and Bomb Threats Scheme That Targeted Jewish Hospitals in New York City and Long Island
Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Domagoj Patkovic pleaded guilty to conspiring to make threats concerning explosives and conveying false information concerning explosives. The proceeding was held before United States District Judge Ramon E. Reyes. When sentenced, Patkovic faces up to 15 years in prison. Patkovic was charged in August 2024. John J. Durham,…
Read MorePolice: Teenage girls planned shooting and pipe bomb attack at Memorial High School in Spring Branch ISD
Police are investigating after two students were accused of threatening to place pipe bombs in a Houston high school and shoot peers, according to police. The two teenage girls were in custody. According to authorities, one of the suspects, a Willis High School student, is currently being held on unrelated charges, while the second suspect,…
Read MoreCambria County man arrested over alleged mass shooting threat
A Salix man has been charged after he allegedly said he wanted to commit a mass shooting at a grocery store in Cambria County while speaking in an Xbox chat. Dylan Shaffer, 25, has been charged after an online friend from Minnesota reached out to police about a mass shooting threat that he allegedly made,…
Read MoreMan who allegedly threatened to kill Jewish people arrested near NYC after driving from Utah
A man who allegedly threatened on social media to kill Jewish people was arrested just outside New York City after driving across the country from Utah, according to NYPD officials. The suspect, Luis Ramirez, drove from Utah through Kansas City to Philadelphia, continuing to make threats along the way, police officials said. NYPD detectives and…
Read MoreASIO boss reveals multiple nations plotted to murder critics in Australia
Intelligence officials have disrupted numerous attempts by hostile countries to kill or harm critics in Australia, and in one recent operation even thwarted a plot to lure an unsuspecting human rights activist overseas, who was to be silenced in an “accident”. The boss of the country’s domestic intelligence agency has delivered his annual threat assessment,…
Read MoreBomb threat suspect tells PBSO he killed 10 girls, had ISIS training
An 18-year-old accused of threatening to a terror attack on Palm Beach Gardens High School claimed he had ISIS training. He also claimed to have killed ten girls, an assertion that authorities had no evidence to indicate was true. Deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) reported that they responded to JFK Hospital…
Read MoreForeign National Extradited From Germany to Face Charge of Transmitting Threatening Communication
Today, the Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against Igor Lira, 40, a Slovakia national, for allegedly transmitting a threat in interstate or international commerce containing a threat to injure. Lira made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland today after he was extradited from Germany. Erek L. Barron, U.S.…
Read MoreSWAT arrests man suspected of robbing a Utah bank and sending threats to another
A man is accused of robbing a bank and stealing a dollar amount to reference the 9/11 attacks. On Thursday, Unified police and the FBI were called to a robbery that happened at a Chase Bank on 2855 E, 3300 South in Millcreek. Witnesses told investigators that a white man with a long beard left…
Read MoreMassachusetts Man Arrested for Making Violent Threats Against Officials, Private Individuals and Children
A Wilbraham, Mass. man has been arrested and charged for allegedly making numerous violent threats on social media targeting certain officials and their families, private individuals, children and sensitive locations such as shopping malls and an elementary school. Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo, also known as “Jonathan Funwayo Nyawo,” “Michael Jacobs,” “Robert Jacobs,” and “Carl Fields,” 36,…
Read MoreMcMinn High School students arrested for conspiracy to commit act of terrorism
Two students face charges after a possible planned attack on other McMinn High School students on Thursday, February 6. Sheriff Joe Guy posted to Facebook that he received a phone call from a parent of one of the teens around 10:30pm that evening, who had “discovered something disturbing”. “The parent was very concerned over a…
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