The man who pleaded guilty to bombings at women’s clinics in Alabama and Georgia, a lesbian bar in Atlanta, and the 1996 Olympic Games is pushing to have his sentences vacated, WBMA reports. Eric Robert Rudolph, now 54, filed a hand-written motion in federal court in Alabama claiming that his conviction for the 1998 bombing …
San Antonio police arrested a man Saturday for allegedly threatening to shoot up Fort Hood over the killing of Spc Vanessa Guillen, KSAT 12 reports. Mario Eloy Pena, 48, has been charged with making a terroristic threat on social media, in which he said he was “close” to becoming an active shooter at the Texas …
On Friday, a federal appeals court in Massachusetts overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of killing three people and injuring more than 260 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. In a 224-page opinion, the three-judge panel of the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the lower court to hold …
A Detroit man has been jailed on terrorism charges for “making credible threats to kill Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel” over the governor’s coronavirus restriction orders meant to slow the spread of the virus. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said that Robert Tesh, 32, made the threats to an acquaintance via social …
A 20-year-old Georgia man has been charged with dissemination of information related to terroristic acts for allegedly making a Facebook post “that contained a threat to future protests related to Ahmaud Arbery,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Sunday. The GBI said they learned of the Facebook post just before midnight Saturday and arrested Rashawn …
An Arizona man convicted of sexual abuse in Iowa 15 years ago has been charged with threatening an Iowa legislator over a requirement in the state’s sex offender registry law the he register in Arizona, where he has lived since 2016. According to a federal complaint, Cody Ray Leveke, 36, had been communicating with state …
A Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison this week for sending homemade bombs to then-President Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2016, KHOU reported. Julia Poff, 48, pleaded guilty in July to the transportation of explosives with the intent to kill, injure and intimidate a person. In addition to Obama …
A 27-year-old Florida woman has been charged with 24 counts of making a destructive device with intent to harm after her parents called police and told them about the arsenal she was building in her room, Bay News 9 reported. Michelle Kolts had already been on deputies’ radar, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said, when …
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After months of investigations, police arrested an Ohio teen accused of making online threats of mass shootings. According to an arrest affidavit, the FBI in Anchorage, Alaska, began the investigation six months ago after an online user named “ArmyOfChrist” allegedly posted numerous comments on the “iFunny” site, in support of mass shootings, assaulting police, and …
Following the House of Representatives’ steps, the Senate voted Tuesday to pass the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund bill, which would provide financial assistance to ailing first responders and their families until 2092. The Senate voted 97-2 to replenish the 9/11 victims fund, which was projected to be depleted by the end of next year. …
Luis Alvarez, a former NYPD detective who crusaded for funding for fellow 9/11 first responders, died Saturday at the age of 53. Mattew McCauley, Alvarez’ lawyer and former NYPD colleague, announced his death on Facebook. Alvarez died from complications of colorectal cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2016 and was attributed to the months …
