Posts Tagged ‘threats to life’
‘No active direct threats’ to inauguration events: USSS
There are “no active direct threats” to the presidential inauguration ceremony on Monday, the lead coordinator for the United States Secret Service told ABC News. Matt McCool, head of the Secret Service’s Washington field office, told ABC News that if there were any potential threats, they would be mitigated by the agency’s extensive security plan.…
Read MoreMercer County Man Pleads Guilty To Communicating Threats To Attack Members Of The White Community
A Mercer County, New Jersey, man admitted to transmitting, via the internet, a post containing threats to injure members of the white community by shooting them with a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna announced today. Joshua Cobb, 24, of Trenton, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch in Trenton federal court…
Read MoreEmailed threats to Jewish funeral home leads to Spring man’s arrest, Bellaire police say
A man in Spring was arrested after police say he threatened to kill Jewish people in the Houston area. Bellaire police were contacted about the threat in October. The owner of Houston Jewish Funerals in Bellaire told investigators he received a disturbing email with the subject line “Beezlebub.” Police didn’t have trouble locating a suspect.…
Read MoreTeen convicted of threatening violence at Montgomery County high school
A Maryland teen who authorities say wrote 129 pages about a school shooting was convicted Wednesday of threatening mass violence. Alex Ye, 19, of Rockville, was found guilty on one count of threat of mass violence after a two-day bench trial in December. Prosecutors described Ye’s long document as a chilling plan to kill students…
Read MoreTeacher Is Arrested After Threat Closes Schools in Montclair, N.J.
Public schools in Montclair, N.J., were closed on Monday after a teacher at an elementary school threatened its principal on social media, the police said. Several hours later, the school district announced that the potential threat had been “neutralized.” The teacher, Amir Doctry, was arrested in Philadelphia on Monday morning and charged with making terroristic…
Read MoreVenezuela’s consulate in Lisbon targeted with explosive device
Venezuela’s consulate in Lisbon was targeted with an explosive device on Saturday night, but there were no injuries, the police said. According to the Lusa news agency, at around 10pm on Saturday, an unidentified person threw a “kind of Molotov cocktail” against the wall of the Venezuelan Consulate General building in Lisbon. A source from…
Read MoreBomb threats shadowed international reporters who covered Chinese celebrity dissident
Reporting on Wang Jingyu, a Chinese celebrity dissident, can be perplexing, stressful and scary. Ask Marije Vlaskamp, a correspondent with de Volkskrant, a leading Dutch daily newspaper. In the fall of 2022, Vlaskamp said Wang told her that people he thought were working for the Chinese government were harassing and threatening him. Wang asked if…
Read MoreTwo 19-year-olds arrested for terroristic threats against school; bail set at combined $1M
Two 19-year-olds have been arrested after allegedly sending terroristic threats to a school, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Garrett Swayne, 19, and Francy Brisma, 19, are facing charges of terroristic threats with intent. State police report that the social media threats were directed toward a school on Jan. 8. Investigators determined that the threats came…
Read MoreArrested for alleged terror threats on Instagram, FIU student claims it was a “joke”
An 18-year-old Florida International University honors student is facing serious charges after federal authorities said he made written threats on social media, including plans to bomb a house. Ronaldo Hernandez-Padron, a graduate of South Miami High School, was arrested last week after the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center (NTOC) received a tip on January 4…
Read MoreBomb threat shuts down I-85 in South Carolina, suspect arrested
A man from Illinois was arrested after a bomb threat investigation shut down I-85 in both directions near Greenville, South Carolina, on Thursday. A South Carolina Transport Police officer conducted a traffic stop on a tractor-trailer around 2:45 p.m. near Exit 44 for a missing license plate, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. The…
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