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A former Los Angeles deputy mayor pleaded guilty to reporting an anti-Israel bomb threat on city hall last year.Brian K. Williams, 61, who was employed as the deputy mayor of public safety in October 2024, was charged with one felony count of making an explosives threat. He was hand-picked for the role by woke Mayor Karen Bass in February 2023 and given significant public safety responsibility, including oversight of the city's fire and police departments. Williams sent a text message to Bass and other high-ranking city officials on October 3, 2024, that he just received a call from someone who...

American Airlines flight AA292 from New York to Delhi has u-turned near Turkmenistan and is diverting to Rome with an emergency bomb threat onboard. This is a breaking news. More details will be added.

Ahmad Jamal Khamees Alhendi facing multiple charges after forcing major highway closure near GreenvilleICE has issued detainer for suspect, whose origin and immigration status remain unclear Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a detainer for a truck driver who was arrested after allegedly making a bomb threat while pulled over on I-85 in South Carolina this week, indicating he may be in the country illegally.The busy interstate was shut down for hours on Thursday afternoon after South Carolina State Transport Police pulled over an 18-wheeler with a missing license plate in Greenville County.During the stop, the driver reportedly claimed...

Election Wizard @ElectionWiz BREAKING: Parts of I-85 closed due to b*mb threat involving 18-wheeler in Greenville County, South Carolina

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A woman was killed in a car accident involving a Rome police officer who was responding to a bomb threat at Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s home, according to police. The Floyd County Bomb Squad, which the officer is a member of, responded to the congresswoman’s home about the reported threat on Monday. The accident happened on Redmond Circle while the officer was on the way to Greene’s home, according to Georgia State Patrol. Troopers said a car pulled out in front of the officer, who was driving his personal vehicle. The other driver,...

Six months ago, Georgia College and State University celebrated its recent graduate Nicholas Wimbish for managing a voting precinct at the Jones County Senior Center. He had earned an "Election Administration Certificate" through exhaustive polling, voting administrative work and classes on the U.S. Constitution, election laws, policymaking, democracy and Southern politics, the school said. Now Wimbish is facing 25 years in prison for "mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter, and making false statements to the FBI" related to his work as a Jones County poll worker, the Justice Department announced Monday....

During a September 5, 2024, appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) cited a “bomb threat” against his son’s school in the litany of instances he listed to justify more gun control. A “bomb threat.” Murphy commented on the Apalachee High School attack, saying, “You don’t need [an AR-15] to hunt. You don’t need that weapon to protect your home. You need that weapon if you’re going to commit mass murder.” He continued, “Part of the reason that these shootings continue to happen, part of the reason that these shootings continue to be so lethal, is because states...

Earlier today the Gateway Pundit reported that the Pennsylvania State Capitol was being evacuated because of an email bomb threat ‘in the name of Palestine.’ Now we can confirm that the Michigan State Capitol, both House and Senate, has received the same threat, and staffers are openly wondering and worrying if this is yet another FBI False Flag event meant to distract from Democrat Joe Biden's horrible poll numbers. State Rep. Steve Carra (R), told the Gateway Pundit that, if this threat is real, it demonstrates a continued pattern of far-left political violence. "The radical left threatens death and destruction...

The Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex was evacuated on Saturday following an alarming bomb threat. An email, sent to over 250 individuals including all Republican and Democratic members of the Pennsylvania House and Senate, threatened to detonate “highly lethal” devices until President Joe Biden publicly denounces Israel. The email was sent around 5:45 p.m. with the subject line “My manifesto,” claiming that lead azide devices were hidden in and around the Pennsylvania State Capitol and Pennsylvania Judicial Center, according to Pennlive. The sender declared his intentions to trigger one device every few hours until Biden goes on national television to denounce...

Three men are accused of abducting a Florida man in Fort Lauderdale at gunpoint, waterboarding him and then trying to enlist his help in their plot when they realized they'd taken the wrong person, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. The alleged victim played along until he got away long enough to call in a bomb threat that sent a massive police response to the rescue, authorities said. The suspects are two bothers, Jeffry Arista, 32, and Jonathan Arista, 29, and a third man named Raymond Gomez. They allegedly snatched a man in a parking garage outside his Fort...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A Florida man was arrested after he claimed to have an explosive device when family members attempted to evict him from their home, according to a release from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The release said deputies were called to a home off of Tyner Street just before noon Thursday for a report of a disturbance between the residents and Lance Heines, 21. Heines, a family member of the residents, was in the middle of being evicted when he “made statements indicating he had an explosive device and told family members to get the bomb...

At least five Targets in multiple states received bomb threats Friday over company executives pulling the Pride collection section because of mounting boycotts, leading to multiple stores being evacuated as police and the FBI searched for explosive devices. "Target is full of [redacted] cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots, who protested and vandalized their store," reads a threatening email sent to several Target locations in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania, Cleveland 19 News reports. "We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us...

Officials with the Coast Guard say federal and state authorities are continuing to investigate a potential threat which was reported at the Wando Terminal Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials say the FBI is investigating a report of a "dirty bomb" aboard a vessel.

CHICAGO (CBS) – A man is charged after claiming to have a bomb in his bag at O'Hare Airport Friday, according to CPD director of communications Tom Ahern. Gilberto Killingbeck, 72, of Boynton Beach, Florida was arrested in Terminal 1 of the airport after jokingly telling TSA that there was a bomb in his bag. The Chicago Police Bomb and Arson detectives investigated and found no explosives in his bag. Killingbeck has been charged with one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct for the incident.

MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) - Officials with the Coast Guard say federal and state authorities are continuing to investigate a potential threat which was reported at the Wando Terminal Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials say the FBI is investigating a report of a "dirty bomb" aboard a vessel.

WILTON MANORS, FLA. (WSVN) - A Wilton Manors man has been charged after, police said, he made a bomb threat inside a dentist’s office. Forty-five-year-old Brian Koller faced a judge in court, Friday morning. Koller has been charged with making a false bomb report, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and criminal mischief. Wilton Manors Dental Office, where the incident occurred, was closed Friday. Oriana Perez said she and her fellow co-workers and patients wasted no time in getting out after Koller charged in threatening he had a bomb. “I was just trying to be out...

I heard a commenter on Fernando & Matt's show Sunday there were rumors of fake calls going out around the country about active shooters at school. But late Sunday evening, without my brining it up, I overheard a visiting family member from TN say they their school (in the Nashville area) were getting similar reports. Question: Is this more than just a rumor? Have you folks been hearing the same reports in your local communities?

Darrell Brooks was busted in March 2007 for calling in a bomb threat to the $43-per-night Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada, ... He was put on probation after being convicted of conspiring to disturb the peace - a gross misdemeanor - and was banned from the casino for life.. His rap sheet also includes a conviction for statutory sexual seduction – the term for sex with a minor aged 16 or under in Nevada law - in January 2007.. Brooks was also charged with failing to inform the police of a change of address while a registered sex offender.....

BAY COUNTY, Fla. -- An investigation is ongoing surrounding a 14-year-old child from Panama City who allegedly has ties to two false bomb threats in the U.S. Alex Solorio, 14, is being charged twice with Principal To Making A False Bomb Threat for threats that occurred at Arnold High School in Panama City and Canon McMillan High School in Pennsylvania. On Sept. 13, Bay County deputies say they secured the school grounds and coordinated an evacuation of Arnold High School after a threatening phone call was made. A release says, North Strabane Township Police Department in Canonsburg, Pa, relayed information...

A Chicago woman was arrested in a Florida airport after allegedly making a false bomb threat, officials said. Marina Verbitsky, 46, of the Old Town neighborhood, was arrested Monday night at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Verbitsky told airport employees there was a bomb in her checked luggage that was on the plane after she was told she and her party were too late to board the plane, deputies said.