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With domestic extremism on the rise, U.S. officials say the threat from homemade bombs is also surging. There were more than 400 bombing incidents in 2020, up 70 percent from the year before. The FBI and DHS’s CISA are now Read More …
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said they arrested Zachary Schmidt on for leaving a bag containing an improvised explosive device (IED) outside of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tuesday night. Around 8 p.m. on Jan. Read More …
A former CIA officer claims Scotland Yard wanted to allow jihadists plotting Britain’s worst-ever terror attack to board jumbo jets with their bombs. Met chiefs “wanted to play to the very edge” as they built a case against fanatics who Read More …
Loud explosions have alarmed and confused West Ridge and Rogers Park residents for months. The blasts have caused windows to rattle and fences to break, residents said. They have flocked to social media and community police meetings to report hearing Read More …
Centralia detectives have arrested an Olympia man accused of bombing and stealing from a First Security Bank ATM last month. Ryan Thomas Moulder, 39, is one of two people police believe used an unknown improvised explosive device at the ATM Read More …
A 36-year-old man from Dunn pled guilty to three counts of possessions of a weapon of mass destruction that seriously injured two State Bureau of Investigations agents in 2019. Agent Tim Luper received second-degree burns and dislocated his shoulder during Read More …
Springfield police took a man into custody Sunday morning after authorities said he repeatedly launched powerful fireworks at officers. The man had a supply of vintage blasting caps and “commercial-grade, mortar type fireworks,” police said. Police found the man on Read More …
Grand Rapids police plan to detonate seized and old explosives as part of a controlled disposal process Thursday, Dec. 30. Police issued an advisory Tuesday, Dec. 28, mostly for people who may be near the disposal site at the city’s Read More …
Sammy, a Belgian shepherd, paid a visit to local students recently as part of the Marshall Legacy Institute’s annual CHAMPS presentation on the importance of her former work as a mine detection dog. Sammy, who retired from her work in Read More …
The Centralia Police Department said Saturday afternoon that two unidentified suspects exploded the 1st Security Bank ATM on South Tower Avenue this morning using an improvised explosive device and then fled in a late 1990s or early 2000s four-door Honda Read More …
A Jackson County man has entered a guilty plea connected to possessing a pipe bomb. A West Virginia State Police trooper pulled over Nicholas Boggess of Ripley in October 2019. The trooper noticed the odor of marijuana and obtained permission Read More …
An Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from the Army rendered a high explosive mortar safe after it was found wedged in the trunk of a tree in South Maui earlier this week. The incident was reported on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021 Read More …
The California National Guard (CNG), has promised to assist the Nigerian Army commence its aviation corps to curb terrorism and other security challenges. It also promised to train army personnel on counter-measures against improvised explosive devices (IEDs), how to employ Read More …
While there is no consensus concerning what current Russian military activity near Ukraine means, it has led to strong statements from US officials. On December 3, the Washington Post reported that US intelligence has found the Kremlin is planning a Read More …
The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election. And so, block by block, he stole 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of C4 plastic explosives from the training Read More …
A man considered armed and dangerous was arrested in Warwick after officers stopped him there Tuesday, according to police. Warwick police said in a news release that David Bruno Jasiulewicz, 32, was a suspect in a burglary investigated by state Read More …
Grand Island police are trying to track down the person responsible for a pipe bomb that exploded in a shed at a business in the west end of town. Police reports indicate that an employee at Mid-Nebraska Feeds said an Read More …
The Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad detonated material consistent with the making of explosive devices on Saturday evening, according to a press release from the Eastham Police Department. Eastham Police Officer Gregory Plante tried to serve a trespass notice on Read More …
Calera Police Chief David Hyche said a person is facing charges of possession of destructive devices and DUI after two suspected improvised explosive devices were found in a vehicle on I-65. Wesley Edwards Mills has been formally charged with felony Read More …
U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Jeffrey Davenport, 52, of Toledo, was sentenced on Monday, November 22, by Judge Jack Zouhary to 54 months in prison after Davenport pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm Read More …