Davin Daniel Meyer, 18, of Castle Rock is charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and made his initial appearance in federal court today. According to court documents, Meyer was arrested on Friday, July 14, as he attempted to board an international flight at...
Monthly Archives: July 2023
A terror suspect accused of plotting to blow up hotels in Kenya with ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite is set to be deported back to Britain within days. Jermaine Grant, 40, faces removal from Kenya after serving nine years in jail for possessing bomb-making materials and forging immigration papers. It raises...
ISLAMABAD, July 14 (Xinhua) — Police in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi arrested a high-profile terrorist on Thursday, an official statement said. The terrorist, who belonged to the banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was arrested by the counter-terrorism department (CTD) of the police on Thursday, the statement released by...
Emergency services across South Wales have been testing their preparedness for terrorism incidents this week, taking part in a live-play exercise in collaboration with Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP). The exercise focused on a scenario involving a terrorist attack at a music event at Newport International Sports Village. The multi-agency exercise involved:...
A British terrorist who travelled to Syria intending on ‘martyrdom on the battlefield’ has been released from a UK jail after just nine years behind bars. Yusuf Zubair Sarwar and his childhood friend Mohammed Nahin Ahmed were both jailed in 2014 and branded ‘dangerous’ by the trial judge after pleading guilty of...
Detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands CTP arrested two men yesterday (Wednesday, July 12) on suspicion of terrorism. The men – aged 18 and 22 and from Birmingham and West Bromwich respectively – were detained in connection with disseminating terrorism material and fundraising for terrorism. They remain in custody today (Thursday, July 13)....
Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari, 26, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to court documents, Al-Azhari pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2023. Al-Azhari is a...
A Youtuber has been remanded in custody and is facing a lengthy jail term after claiming he had a bomb at an airport. Online prankster Garard Ndela was arrested just minutes after turning up at Newcastle Airport on Monday, July 3. The 19-year-old was recording himself in the terminal building walking past...
A former college student who plotted to blow up a police station to spark a race war has been jailed for four years. Luke Skelton, who was referred to the Prevent anti-terror programme due to his extreme right-wing views, was 18 when he carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of a station...
Gibbons’ neo-Nazi online library was found by officers to have held more than 500 videos of extreme right-wing-related speeches and propaganda documents. It had nearly 1,000 subscribers, and the content had been viewed more than 152,000 times. Two men who used a podcast series to encourage listeners to commit violent...
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