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Police in Washington state are investigating an incident involving an “improvised explosive device” found outside a cannabis shop in Tacoma on Friday. A suspect can be seen dropping off the homemade device and then throwing the Molotov cocktail at the Read More …
Two Georgia men have been indicted on several federal charges in the bombing of a woman’s home and plotting to have a large python “eat the victim’s daughter,” federal officials announced last week. According to the release, the two men Read More …
Envoys from key nations were set to meet Monday in Jamaica to address the spiraling instability in Haiti, where gang violence has crippled the impoverished nation’s capital and forced foreign diplomats to evacuate over the weekend. Armed groups, which already Read More …
The series of blasts in the Tierra Caliente — an area along the border of Jalisco and Michoacán states that has long been a hot zone for cartel warfare — mark an alarming escalation of violence in Mexico as criminal Read More …
Three farmers were killed Tuesday by a bomb apparently planted in a dirt road in the cartel-dominated western Mexico state of Michoacan, marking the second time in just five days that hidden explosive devices have caused multiple fatalities in the Read More …
Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the Read More …
Power supply to Tesla’s factory near Berlin has been cut following an arson attack on a high-voltage electricity pylon nearby, a German official said Tuesday. “If the initial findings are confirmed, this is a perfidious attack on our electricity infrastructure. Read More …
An improvised explosive device killed at least four soldiers in what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday was a “trap” likely set by a drug cartel. The soldiers were killed Thursday on the outskirts of the city of Aguililla Read More …
A man who detonated a low explosive device in the presence of police officers has admitted the offence in court. Police attended an address in Carr Court, Davenport Close, shortly before 10am on 28 August last year to arrest 54-year-old Read More …
A man who threw a petrol bomb at an Edinburgh family home to “scare” a man has been jailed for five years. Joseph Haughian, 38, threw the weapon at Lewis Gosman and struck a window in the Moredun area on Read More …
On Friday, Orange and Rockland County Sheriff’s Deputies were in the Village of Chester serving a temporary order of protection and executing a firearms surrender when deputies located a bag that contained what appeared to be an Improvised Explosive Device Read More …
Three people including two policemen sustained injuries in a crude bomb explosion in Gournadi municipality of Barishal on Tuesday morning. The injured are Gournadi Model Police Station’s Sub-Inspector Kamal Hossain and Constable Mizanur Rahman, and civilian Masum Hawlader. Police and Read More …
Salt Lake City Police closed down State Street in both directions from 800-900 South Saturday night after the discovery of a potential bomb threat. The SLCPD said it arrested 51-year-old Arthur Lloyd Palmer after pulling him over for expired registration Read More …
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) Bomb Squad discovered multiple types of suspected explosive devices in the home of a man accused of making threats against members of a homeowners association, a probable cause affidavit stated. Loxahatchee resident Graham Read More …
A man who threw three petrol bombs towards the open window of a police station with officers inside has been sentenced. Voldemaras Rimasauskas, 31, threw the homemade devices towards Huntingdon Police Station on 9 December 2022. Three officers were in Read More …
A Calgary man was preparing for a “breakdown in society” when he stockpiled homemade bombs, a judge heard Thursday. Wayne McGuire, 54, pleaded guilty to a number of charges, including possession of explosives, possession of body armour and assault with Read More …
The explosion didn’t stop Michael Liburdi. Neither did losing his right hand and right forearm or the ability to use most of his left arm. The coma didn’t stop the felon from Warren, either. Nor did three months in the Read More …
Two men who stole almost £160,000 after blowing up four cash machines with explosives have been jailed. Ben Thompson, 35, of Wythenshawe, and Wesley Shepherd, 39, of Sale, were later spotted at Manchester Airport jetting off to Egypt, Spain and Read More …
An Ohio man who had allegedly been a member of a neo-Nazi “white lives matter” group has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for firebombing a church that planned to host drag events, the US justice department announced on Read More …
At least 30 people have been killed in renewed violence in Nigeria’s central Plateau State, where clashes between Muslim herders and Christian farming communities have erupted for years, a community organisation and an aid group source said on Thursday. Despite Read More …