A QAnon conspiracy theorist, fascinated with the crackpot legal theories of the anti-government “sovereign citizen” movement, allegedly kidnapped her two daughters last week. It is just the latest example of the growing and increasingly dangerous overlap between right-wing conspiracy theories and real-life violent crime. QAnon believers have been charged in the past with two murders, a terrorist incident near the Hoover Dam, and an incidence of […]
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Beware: if you feel the need to video yourself licking deodorant at a Walmart during a global pandemic, people in other countries will alert your local police department and you will be charged for making a terroristic threat. This is the story of 26-year-old Missouri man Cody Pfister, who Warren County police identified as the guy who licked deodorant and asked the camera, “Who’s afraid of the coronavirus?” […]
Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was charged in the U.S. with drug trafficking crimes on Thursday after an investigation by federal authorities in Washington, New York, and Florida. Maduro is a socialist leader who already faces sanctions in the U.S. He has also been the target of a U.S. campaign aimed at pushing him from power. An NBC news report states that […]
A man in New Jersey was charged with terroristic threats and various other crimes on Tuesday after allegedly coughing on a supermarket employee, telling her he had contracted the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), and insulting her and other workers. According to New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, 50-year-old George Falcone was charged in connection with an incident that occurred at the Wegman’s on Highway 9 over […]
A Spartanburg County, South Carolina man was arrested and charged with breach of peace and forgery after lying about having the coronavirus, Sheriff Chuck Wright told reporters in a presser this week. The man, Jeffrey Long, told his call center employers at the Sitel Corporation that he had been tested for coronavirus at the VA hospital and the results were positive, and forged a note from […]
US Attorney John Durham charged a Connecticut man with threatening to kill Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in November, when the California lawmaker was spearheading the impeachment of President Trump, according to the Justice Department. “I want to kill you with my bare hands and smash your sick little round fat lying face in,” said 62-year-old Robert M. Phelps in an online meeting request sent to Schiff’s […]
A Massachusetts professor accused of raping a female student he met on a “sugar daddy” website in October is now facing additional charges after two new women came forward with similar allegations—including one student who said he tried to make her his “personal prostitute,” according to authorities and court documents. Nicholas Pirelli, a 36-year-old temporary communications professor at Bridgewater State University, was charged Tuesday with trafficking […]
The trainer of Maximum Security, one of the fastest racehorses in the world, is among more than two dozen individuals charged in a “widespread corrupt scheme” to dope horses and cheat the $100 billion global industry, prosecutors said on Monday. Jason Servis and 26 other trainers, veterinarians, and drug distributors were charged in four indictments unsealed Monday in New York. They are accused of several crimes, […]
Israel has re-elected Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the right-wing camp, in a surprising result given the corruption charges against him and a forthcoming trial. Nevertheless, he duly went ahead and defeated his opponents. Netanyahu’s victory provides us with an opportunity to consider whether corruption has permeated Israeli society as it shifts ever more to the right. Does electing a fellow right-winger matter more to voters […]
Houston, Texas — Today, a grand jury refused to issue felony indictments against the Greenpeace USA activists and others charged following the peaceful protest on September 12, 2019 at the Houston Ship Channel [1]. Thirty-one people had been charged with a felony by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office under Texas’ controversial new anti-protest law, but none were indicted on this charge by a Harris County […]
A US department of defense employee has been arrested and charged with transmitting “highly sensitive classified” information to a foreign national with ties to the Lebanese Islamist militant group Hezbollah. According to US federal prosecutors, 61-year-old Mariam Taha Thompson told a Lebanese man the names of foreign informants, as well as details of the information they provided to the United States – revealing some of the […]
A NASA employee was charged Wednesday with murdering his neighbor, a Maryland National Guardsman, with whom he’d fought for years over loud music, dog poop, and guests, according to police and family members. Michael Hetle, 52, faces several charges, including second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, in the slaying of his 24-year-old neighbor Javon Prather, Fairfax County police […]
Former UAW President Gary Jones, a labor leader who until recently held the same job that made Jimmy Hoffa a national icon (before his untimely murder/disappearance) has been charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to embezzle union funds, WSJ reports. Prosecutors claimed Jones used union funds to finance “trips, liquor and other luxuries” despite presenting himself as a labor leader and man of the people who […]
A US defence department linguist was charged with espionage yesterday for allegedly supplying classified information to a Lebanese national with links to Hezbollah. Mariam Thompson, 61, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, has been accused of endangering the lives of US military personal while on active duty by releasing “highly sensitive classified” information, including the names of colleagues. Thompson was a contract linguist and held a “top-secret government […]
Two New Jersey teenagers have been charged after a failed attempt at the viral “skull breaker” challenge resulted in the hospitalization of a seventh-grader with a serious head injury and seizure, prosecutors and family members said. The two students, who have not been identified because of their age, were both charged with third-degree aggravated assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child after the January […]
US 06:15 GMT 01.03.2020Get short URL Mikaela Spielberg’s fiancé has confirmed the news, referring to the incident as a “misunderstanding”; he would not disclose who was involved but said no one was hurt. Mikaela Spielberg, the daughter of the famed filmmaker Steven Spielberg, has been arrested and charged with domestic violence. According to inmate records, the 23-year-old, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, was admitted to the […]
Authored by Andrey Shevchenko via CoinTelegraph.com, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged actor Steven Seagal for promoting an initial coin offering (ICO) without disclosing that he was paid for it. He was ordered to pay back over $330,000 to the commission. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph In March 2018, Steven Seagal was contracted by ICO project “Bitcoiin2Gen” (B2G) to promote the sale on his social media channels, […]
An 84-year-old man who has been accused of setting fire to the main entrance of a mosque in the French town of Bayonne and shooting two people, died in hospital on Wednesday, media reports say. The prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, Olivier Janson, has opened an investigation to determine the cause of the death of Claude Sinke, Le Parisien wrote. The man was imprisoned at the Mont-de-Marsan Penitentiary […]
One frigid morning in February 2018, Larry Isenberg and his wife, Lori, woke up before dawn to watch the sunrise from their boat on the picturesque Lake Coeur d’Alene in northern Idaho. But as the couple guided their boat along Sun Up Bay, their motor stalled, prompting Larry Isenberg to give it a look. Then, the unthinkable happened: the longtime forester fell overboard—just out of reach […]
Police in Hobart, Indiana claim a local couple ran twin boys off the road for having Trump flags on their bikes, according to The Associated Press. The incident had been posted to Snapchat, authorities said. “This is an unfortunate event that involved two brothers expressing their support for President Trump,” Police Capt. James Gonzales said. “Our residents in Hobart should be able to express their support […]
US 06:44 GMT 22.02.2020Get short URL The Drug Enforcement Administration agent and his long-time informant allegedly engaged in an illegal scheme to secretly divert drug proceeds from undercover stings into a bank account they controlled. It emerged that the agent had managed to get hired by the DEA despite struggling with a polygraph exam and declaring bankruptcy. The FBI on Friday arrested decorated narcotics agent Jose […]
Cardi B’s best friend, Star Brim, was charged by New York prosecutors in a sweeping roundup of the 5-9 Brims—a violent set of the Bloods street gang—for allegedly orchestrating an attack at the same club where the rapper’s strip-club brawl took place. The well-connected 28-year-old from the Bronx, whose real name is Yonette Respass, was one of the 11 charged in indictments unveiled on Tuesday in […]
Authored by Andrew McCarthy via National Review.com, The proof that he willfully deceived investigators appears strong, but the Justice Department likely felt there were too many obstacles to convicting him. The Justice Department announced Friday that it is closing its investigation of Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director, over his false statements to investigators probing an unauthorized leak that McCabe had orchestrated. McCabe was fired in […]
The daughter of one the country’s highest-ranking former diplomats has been charged with fatally stabbing an acquaintance in the neck during a late-night argument. Sophia Negroponte allegedly killed Yousuf Rasmussen, 24, inside an apartment in Rockville, Maryland just before midnight Thursday, the Montgomery County Department of Police said. The 27-year-old is the daughter of former director of national intelligence John Negroponte, the Washington Post reported. Police said […]