Tag Archives: FBI

Man Gets 45 Years In Grindr Kidnap/Murder Attempt

From the Justice Department: Chance Seneca, 21, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 45 years in federal prison for kidnapping and attempting to murder a gay man as part of a months-long scheme to kidnap and murder gay men. The court rested its sentence on many factors, including its determination that the defendant intentionally targeted the victim and other …

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FBI Investigates Another Attack On NC Power Station

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: The FBI is asking for the public’s help to find a suspect in a shooting of an electrical substation in Randolph County in mid-January, a month after a shooting in Moore County left tens of thousands without power for days. “In the early morning hours of January 17,” the FBI said, “unknown suspect(s) fired …

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FBI Warns Of Nazi Attacks On “Electrical Infrastructure”

NPR reports: A Nov. 22 alert from FBI headquarters and the agency’s Newark field office warned of an increase of “threats to electrical infrastructure” from racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (“RMVE”). Those would include white supremacists and other so-called accelerationists attempting to sow chaos. “The FBI has received reports of threats to electrical infrastructure by threat actors who espouse …

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FL Man Charged With Anti-Gay Mass Shooting Threat

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: A Winter Park man who admitted posting an image of a semi-automatic rifle with threats to kill gay people in a mass shooting at Florida State University was arrested by the FBI. Sean Michael Albert, 19, was arrested Tuesday on a federal charge of making an interstate communication to threaten to injure another person, according to …

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FBI Offers $500K For Info On Capitol Hill Pipe Bomber

CNN reports:   The FBI is now offering $500,000 for information leading to an arrest of the person who placed pipe bombs near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, the night before the 2021 US Capitol riot, the bureau announced Wednesday. The announcement represents a sharp increase in the amount of money the government …

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FBI Warns Of “Pig Butchering” Cryptocurrency Scam

CNN Business reports: The FBI says America has a “pig butchering” problem. And it’s costing victims millions of dollars. “We’re not talking about what’s going on at farms,” said Frank Fisher, public affairs specialist at the bureau’s Albuquerque division. “We’re talking about a cryptocurrency investment scam that is sweeping the country.” The term pig butchering refers to an unsuspecting victim …

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“Fags For Trump” Rioter Arrested After FBI Standoff

NBC News reports: A man who carried what appeared to be a hammer at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, got into a standoff Thursday with the FBI for hours before special agents arrested him for his role in the riot, law enforcement officials said. The FBI arrested Eric Christie on Thursday after several hours in which he refused …

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FBI Arrests Man Charged In 1988 Lockerbie Bombing

The New York Times reports: A Libyan intelligence operative charged in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, was arrested by the F.B.I. and being extradited to the United States to face prosecution for one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in American history, officials said on Sunday. The arrest of the operative, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, was …

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FBI Was Tipped About Club Shooter Before 2021 Arrest

The Associated Press reports: Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub was on the FBI’s radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members, but agents closed out the case just weeks later. The disclosure by the FBI to The Associated Press creates a new timeline for when law enforcement …

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Feds Investigate More Attacks On Power Substations

CNN reports:   A growing number of reported threats to power infrastructure are under investigation following attacks on substations in the South and on the West Coast as electricity becomes a more critical need in winter. Even before the gun assaults Saturday in Moore County, North Carolina, wiped out power for days to thousands, at least five electricity substations in …

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Trump Team Found More Docs In Florida Storage Unit

The Washington Post reports: Lawyers for former president Donald Trump found at least two items marked classified after an outside team hired by Trump searched a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Fla., used by the former president, according to people familiar with the matter. Those items were turned over to the FBI, according to those people, who like others …

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Anti-Vax Cultist Charged With Threat To Kill FBI Agent

The Daily Beast reports: North Carolina insurance salesman and semi-pro musician Stephen Jike Williams, who performs simply as Jike Williams, allegedly vowed to execute fact checkers for the “defamation and slander” of the ex-president. When the FBI showed up at his door, Williams threatened the life of a female agent assigned to investigate, according to a criminal complaint first obtained …

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Feds “Ready As We Could Be” For Election Violence

NBC News reports: U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are gearing up for a panoply of potential threats to the election, including extremist violence, cyberattacks, social media disinformation and voter intimidation. “I think we’re as prepared as we possibly could be,” one Justice Department official said, while adding that despite months of planning and tabletop exercises, people are “anxious and …

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FBI Identifies Extremist In Threat To NJ Synagogues

The New York Times reports: Hours after issuing a rare warning about a security threat at New Jersey synagogues, the FBI identified a man who holds “radical extremist views,” a federal official told faith leaders Friday morning. “He no longer poses a threat to the community at this time,” James E. Dennehy, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s …

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Judge To Mike Lindell: You Can’t Have Your Phone Back

Law & Crime reports: A federal judge in Minnesota appointed by Donald Trump on Thursday rejected a motion for a temporary restraining order which was filed by local counsel and self-described constitutional consultant Alan Dershowitz on behalf of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. Like the Trump case, the judge noted, plaintiff Lindell is seeking return of property as DOJ conducts an …

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FOIA Request Shows Feds Issued Warnings On Armed Pro-Trump Violence In Wake Of Mar-A-Lago Search

Bloomberg News reports: Federal law enforcement officers scoured social media to identify threats to FBI buildings and agents and issued internal warnings about possibly armed protests in the days after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, according to emails and other records obtained by Bloomberg. Intelligence officers at the Federal Protective Service, an arm of the US …

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Trump Returns To Claiming FBI “Planted Fake Evidence”

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: So now the FBI & Biden Department of ‘Justice’ leakers are going to spend Millions of Dollars, & vast amounts of Time & Energy, to appeal the Order on the ‘Raid of Mar-a-Lago Document Hoax,’ by a brilliant and courageous Judge whose words of wisdom rang true throughout our Nation, instead of …

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Top Secret Nuclear Docs Found In Mar-A-Lago Search

The Washington Post reports: A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club last month, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about classified material stashed in the Florida property. Some of the seized documents …

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AP: Trump To Argue Presidents Are Above The Law

The Associated Press reports: A newly unsealed FBI document about the investigation at Mar-a-Lago not only offers new details about the probe but also reveals clues about the arguments former President Donald Trump’s legal team intends to make. A May 25 letter from one of his lawyers, attached as an exhibit to the search affidavit, advances a broad view of …

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Lawyer Claims He’ll Sue Feds Over “Tortured” Rioters

From the far-right site American Greatness: A lawyer for several of the January 6 political prisoners says his clients are being “tortured” by a system of “anarcho-tyranny” that considers them to be a “subhuman, sub-constitutional class of people.” In an interview this week, Joseph D. McBride said he is building a case to sue the federal government for millions of …

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