An FBI affidavit says investigators identified Cole as a suspect through analysis of credit card charges related to the purchase of pipe bomb components, cellphone towers and a license plate reader. Cole, 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, confessed to the Jan. 5, 2021, act in interviews with investigators, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Cole also indicated that he believed the 2020 election was stolen and expressed views supportive of President Donald Trump, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss by name an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
I know some people have given up on finding the perpetrator. But not the FBI and not our partners, said Darren Cox, a deputy assistant director in the FBI. He explained that the investigation involved sorting through 3 million lines of data. We do not forget, we do not give up, and we do not relent. Though it had been nearly five years, our team continued to churn through massive amounts of data and tips that we used to identify this suspect, Cox said.
Are you worried, Tom, that they're gonna target you with prosecution after this is all over? Well, they've already said they're going to, Homan replied. So come get some. Bottom line is, I'm not gonna let them forget what they did the last four years. A half a million children were separated from their families and smuggled across this border. A quarter of a million Americans died from drug overdoses that came across that border.
Natalie Greene, 26, a former aide to Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), told police and the FBI in July that she and a friend were taking a late-night hike through a nature preserve in New Jersey when three unidentified men attacked her, binding her hands and feet with zip ties. She told the cops one of the men had a gun. Greene's companion on the walk, an unnamed co-conspirator in the case, called 911.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man who allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, previously served in one of Afghanistan's elite counterterrorism units, according to AfghanEvac, a nonprofit run by U.S. veterans and others who served in Afghanistan. The unit was operated by the CIA with direct U.S. intelligence and military support, according to AfghanEvac. Lakanwal's unit, NDS-03, operated at the direction of the CIA and fought the Taliban on behalf of the U.S. government, the group said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters that President Trump requested 500 additional National Guard members be sent to the nation's capital to keep D.C. "safe and beautiful." "We have received the request and will rapidly execute" what Trump asked for, an Army official told Axios on background. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called the act of violence a "targeted shooting" by one individual.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shared findings from the large-scale investigation and insisted there is no cover-up to be found in the Butler case. We have reviewed this case over and over looked into every nugget. We have spoken to the families, the president there is no cover-up here. There is no motive for it, there is no reason for it, Bongino said.
allegedly told a concocted story to FBI agents, saying she was attacked on July 23 around 10 p.m. by three men who called her names while she was walking with a friend on a nature trail near Atlantic City. Two of the men restrained her on the ground, she said, binding her ankles together with zip ties as they struck her in the head and cut her with a sharp object all over her body.
Martin had apparently seen how this system worked in practice through his job, and he approached a pair of other people to help him make some easy cash. One of these people was allegedly Ryan Goldberg of Watkinsville, Georgia, who worked as an incident manager at the cybersecurity firm Sygnia. Goldberg told the FBI that Martin had recruited him to "try and ransom some companies."
A person claiming to be one of the University of Pennsylvania hackers says that about "1.2 million lines of data" will be kept private for the group to sell before it is made public. The group also plans to make other documents public. In comments to The Verge, the hacker or hackers distanced themselves from earlier hacks of other private universities including Columbia - which were aimed at demonstrating colleges had maintained unlawful pro-diversity policies.
Billups, who is now the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, was charged for his alleged role in a Mafia-backed illegal poker operation; Rozier was charged for faking an injury that allowed his associates to bet the under on his game totals for points and other stats. And Jones was charged for supplying information on key players, like LeBron James, sitting out games before it became public.
A Southern California mother rented a car this month and drove her 9-year-old daughter halfway across the country, to Nebraska. Three days later she returned home alone, and has since refused to answer questions about the girl's whereabouts. Now, Ashlee Buzzard's road trip has become the central focus of the FBI's and Santa Barbara County Sheriff Office's search for her missing daughter, Melodee. Authorities believe Buzzard left the Lompoc area with her daughter on Oct. 7, drove to Nebraska, and then returned to her Vandenberg Village home on Oct. 10, passing through Kansas along the way.
Coast Guard security personnel then fire multiple shots at the U-Haul, which tries to drive away. "Coast Guard personnel issued multiple verbal commands to stop the vehicle, the driver failed to comply and proceeded to put the vehicle in reverse - suddenly accelerating backwards at a high rate of speed directly toward them," Coast Guard Lt. Krystal Wolfe said in an emailed statement.
The operation carried out October 23 by the FBI, involving NBA players and several mafia families, could well have been lifted from this acclaimed piece of film making. In total, the FBI has arrested 37 individuals connected to the fraud ring. With the alleged involvement of three La Cosa Nostra crime families, an NBA head coach and Hall of Famer, as well as other current and former professional athletes, the investigative work that culminated with this morning's operation are reminiscent of a Hollywood movie.
Billups on Thursday was arrested and charged for his alleged role in a Mafia-backed illegal poker scheme. During an FBI press conference, it was revealed that the poker scheme involved sophisticated technology used to rig games for the defendants. Billups, the indictment alleged, served as a face card in the operation a high-profile player to entice would-be victims join the games.
The FBI has accused a Louisiana resident of participating in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 then lying about his past and fraudulently obtaining a visa to live in the US. According to a recently unsealed FBI criminal complaint, Mahmoud Amin Ya'qub al-Muhtadi armed himself and gathered a group to cross from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel during the attack that left more than 1,200 people dead.
Bolton, who was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday on the charges following an FBI investigation lasting over three years, is the third political foe of Donald Trump to be indicted in the past three weeks, since the Republican sent a social media message to his attorney general, Pam Bondi, ordering her to force the prosecution of people he believes have harmed his political career.
A prominent Indian-American academic and former US government adviser has been arrested and charged with the unlawful detention of national security information, including thousands of pages of top secret documents that were found at his home. Ashley Tellis, 64, who served on the national security council of the former US president George W Bush and is credited for helping to negotiate the US-India nuclear deal, was arrested and charged over the weekend.
"If you are willing to go after a small water provider in Littleton, Massachusetts, what other target is off the list?" asked Former National Security Agency Director Gen. Tim Haugh on "60 Minutes."
