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A California teenager accused of being behind a flurry of swatting incidents across the country targeting schools and the homes of FBI agents has been arrested in connection with a swatting attempt at a Florida mosque last year, according to court documents filed by state prosecutors. Alan Winston Filion, 17, was arrested last month at his home in Lancaster, California, and extradited to Florida on Tuesday, court documents say. He was charged as an adult on four felonies, including charges related to false reporting that triggered law enforcement response. Filion entered a not guilty plea to the charges. He is...

Bomb threats were sent to Jewish schools and synagogues across Southern California this week, as a wave of antisemitism continues. Breitbart News sources indicate that 20 Jewish institutions in Los Angeles received bomb threats on Tuesday, causing those Jewish schools that had been scheduled to open on January 2 to remain closed. In San Diego, six synagogues (or temples) were threatened, as the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Wednesday:

At least six state capitols across the country received bomb threats early Wednesday morning, prompting evacuations and lockdowns, though no dangerous items were immediately discovered. Evacuations and lockdowns were reported at state capitols in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Connecticut and Michigan due to apparent bomb threats. It’s not clear whether or how the incidents might be connected. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posted on X, formerly Twitter, that the Kentucky State Police (KSP) was investigating a threat and had evacuated the state capitol in Frankfort. “While everyone is safe, KSP has asked everyone to evacuate the state Capitol and is investigating...

‘Pride’ activists will do whatever it takes to maintain their clutch on the narrative — including spinning their own bomb threats against themselves.The shameless corporate media are so desperate for a narrative about LGBT victimhood, they’re pretending threats of violence from angry pro-“pride” perpetrators are instead threats against them. The latest examples are pure propaganda from The Hill and The Washington Post on Monday, which led with scaremongering — “bomb threats over Pride items” — while completely burying the lede: The bomb threats against culturally embroiled retail giant Target came from pro-LGBT activists. “Target stores in at least five states...

A Target in Layton was evacuated after officials said they were informed of a bomb threat to multiple Utah locations. An employee of the Panda Express located next to the Target at 815 West 2000 North confirmed that multiple officers were on scene with a K-9 team by 1 p.m. on Friday. They said all of the stores occupants —staff and customers — appeared to have been evacuated to the parking lot. Sgt. John Ottesen with Layton Police said bomb threats were made to Target stores in Layton, Salt Lake, Taylorsville and Provo. Officers began the investigation after two local...

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.....

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Vienna man pleaded guilty today to charges related to his role in a conspiracy that conducted multiple swatting events targeting journalists, a Virginia university, a historic Virginia church, and a former cabinet official.According to court documents, John William Kirby Kelley, 19, conspired with John Cameron Denton, a former leader of the Atomwaffen Division in Texas, and others to conduct “swatting” calls. Swatting is a harassment tactic that involves deceiving dispatchers into believing that a person or persons are in imminent danger of death or bodily harm and causing the dispatchers to send police and emergency...

CNN produced an on-screen graphic on Thursday that referred to the Democratic recipients of suspicious, potentially explosive devices as "Trump's targets." The graphic aired during a CNN segment on the "manhunt" for the person or people responsible for the explosives sent to some high-profile Democrats and critics of President Trump this week. "Manhunt for serial bomber going after Trump's targets," the graphic said.

Authorities on Wednesday night found a suspicious package addressed to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) in a Los Angeles mail facility. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in a statement said it is similar to the other packages mailed to high-level Democratic figures this week. The other packages contained explosives. Authorities have so far confirmed that five of the intercepted packages contained devices described as crude pipe bombs. The ATF's Los Angeles field division and Los Angeles Police Department are currently investigating the package in Los Angeles. "We are working closely with our federal law enforcement partners given...

explosive devices" sent to Hillary Clinton, former President Obama, billionaire philanthropist George Soros and CNN at Manhattan's Time Warner Center are thought to be linked, law enforcement officials say. Two of the devices -- one addressed to Clinton's Chappaqua home, one to Obama in Washington, D.C. -- were intercepted by the U.S. Secret Service. Both were discovered at off-site locations and neither the former secretary of state nor former president were ever at risk, officials said. Another suspicious package -- one addressed to ex-CIA chief John Brennan, now an MSNBC contributor -- that appeared similar to the other three forced...

PRINCETON, WV (WVNS) - An 18-year-old Princeton High School student is facing charges for making a bomb threat at the school, according to police. Princeton Police said they arrested Jasmine Nicole Keith who is charged with threatening to commit a terroristic act with or without intent to commit the act. Police said they were notified about the threat around noon on September 11, 2018.

Officials at Arlington National Cemetery announced that they had evacuated the area after a bomb threat Wednesday morning. All visitors and staff had been safely removed from the area and the emergency services are investigating, according to the statement. "We will update the public as soon as we have additional information," officials added. DEVELOPING

JERUSALEM (AP) — A 19-year-old American-Israeli Jew was arrested Thursday as the prime suspect in a wave of bomb threats against U.S. Jewish community centers, a startling turn in a case that had stoked fears of rising anti-Semitism in the United States.

WASHINGTON — The Israeli police on Thursday arrested a man believed to be responsible for scores of bomb threats that were phoned in to Jewish community centers across the United States, American officials said. The F.B.I. confirmed in a statement that the bureau had worked with the Israeli national police to arrest the teenager, who, officials said, holds citizenship in both Israel and the United States. “Investigating hate crimes is a top priority for the F.B.I., and we will continue to work to make sure all races and religions feel safe in their communities and in their places of worship,”...

Congratulations, liberals, it's another great moment in leftist-statist history! In the past few weeks, we've seen a growing number of ugly threats threats directed at the Jewish community. Specifically, there's been a slew of news about graveyard desecration and bomb threats. A lot of conservatives began yelling "flase flag" while liberals were sure this was the work of bigoted Trump voters. As usual, it looks like the conservatives were right. Juan Thompson, a former "journalist" and a Bernie voter, has been arrested for at least eight of the bomb threats - as well as stalking an ex-girlfriend.

Juan Thompson, the St. Louis native arrested for making bomb threats against Jewish centers, evidently used to write at left-wing website The Intercept before being fired for fabrication. Here’s Mediaite’s report on his firing a year ago. News website The Intercept issued a mass retraction and correction Tuesday after admitting that one of their writers regularly fabricated sources and impersonated sources with fake Gmail accounts. “An investigation into [Juan Thompson]’s reporting turned up three instances in which quotes were attributed to people who said they had not been interviewed. In other instances, quotes were attributed to individuals we could not...

Two trains in Gothenburg and Södertälje, near Stockholm, were evacuated after receiving bomb threats on Thursday. Police asked national rail company SJ to temporarily halt all train traffic in and out of both Gothenburg and Stockholm, a spokesman for SJ told The Local at 3 pm. […] “All information we have is that at 1:10 pm, we got a threat and the train had to stop at Södertälje Syd. So all passengers had to leave the train and now technicians are looking at it,” Carina Skagerlind told The Local at around 3 pm. “We make no comment on how we...

Bomb threats were reported on two airplanes landing at Brussels airport in Zaventem, but one plane landed safely, Belgian state broadcaster VRT reported on Wednesday evening. However, an airport police spokeswoman said no bomb alerts were in place and that there was no problem at the airport. VRT said one of the planes, which was flying from Oslo, landed safely.

Dallas' police chief told reporters after midnight local time that they have three people in custody and were in a bullet-ridden standoff with another -- but the shooters have given no indication of their motive for ambushing police officers at a downtown march. Chief David Brown said the death toll was up to four officers after one more died at the hospital. Seven officers have been wounded. Brown said police were in negotiations with a suspect on the second floor of the El Centro College parking garage -- but the suspect had been firing at officers for the past 45...

Officials in China this week examined the anuses of 10,000 pigeons that were set to be released today in celebration of National Day, amid government fears of a possible terrorist attack. According to reports from state-run media outlets, the birds had their feathers, legs, and anuses searched for "suspicious objects" yesterday, before being packed onto a truck and sent to Tiananmen Square in Beijing for today's ceremony. Many reports on the probe disappeared from China's tightly-controlled media after being published, though some articles and tweets remain online. The entire process was reportedly videotaped.