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."
All flights into and out of Ronald Reagan National Airport, one of the nation's busiest airports, were halted for a time on Tuesday due to a reported bomb threat, federal authorities announced. The threat was directed towards a United Airlines flight traveling from Houston, Texas, to the Washington, D.C. area airport, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X.
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."
The affidavit says the FBI in Dallas first began investigating Chen in February after learning that she had submitted 25 online tips to the FBI National Threat Operations Center for a little less than a year, none of which was substantiated. Subjects of the tips included terrorism, murder for hire, crimes against children, bank robbery, civil rights crimes and election crimes.
About halfway through AA flight 2470's journey on September 16, Dilone left her seat and began "walking down the aisle and yelling," the probable cause affidavit states. At the same time, Dilone was "continually recording the entire aircraft," it alleges. When asked to stop filming, Dilone became enraged and "started to verbally threaten multiple flight attendants," who notified the captain and co-pilot, the affidavit goes on.
On September 10, Charlie Kirk, a right-wing activist from the United States was shot during an event at Utah Valley University. The alleged attacker, identified as 22-year-old Utah native Tyler R., was taken into custody on September 12. Following the incident, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a videoand several images of a "person of interest," asking the public for help in identifying the suspect. Once Tyler R. was apprehended, his mugshot was made public.
When Leah Marx began visiting Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles in 2010, it did not immediately raise alarm among the people who ran it. Most of the time, jailers just looked at her federal ID and let her in without asking why she was there. If they did, she said she was investigating a human trafficking case. It was a good-sounding story. Believable. Perfect to deter further questions.
Driving the news: At least seven HBCUs went on lockdown on Thursday, including Alabama State University, Virginia State University, Hampton University, Spelman College, Southern University and A&M College, Clark Atlanta University, Bethune-Cookman. Some of the schools, including Spelman, Southern, Clark Atlanta and VSU have since lifted their shelter-in-place orders after no threats were found. It is not immediately clear if the threats are connected or racially motivated.
