News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Thailand. Overview: Thailand experienced no attacks attributed to transnational terrorist groups in 2019 and violence was restricted to attacks attributed to ethno-nationalist insurgents in the country’s restive southern region. The number of terrorist incidents in the Deep South (the southernmost provinces...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Mexico. Overview: Counterterrorism cooperation between Mexico and the United States remained strong. In 2011, the Mexican government aided U.S. efforts to disrupt an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States. An operative, who planned to contact a Mexican criminal organization...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Burkina Faso. Overview: Terrorist activity in Burkina Faso rapidly and significantly increased in 2019, as members of JNIM and ISIS-GS conducted the highest level of targeted political assassination, the largest attack on civilians, the largest attack on Burkinabe security forces, and the largest attack...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Albania. Overview: Albania continued its strong support of international CT efforts in 2019 and contributed to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. The terrorism threat in Albania consists of FTFs returning from Iraq and Syria, Albanian youth being radicalized to terrorism, and Iran’s plotting against...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Morristown National Historical Park News. Release Date: Immediately. Contact: Karen Sloat-Olsen, Chief of Interpretation and Education. karen_sloat-olsen@nps.gov. Morristown National Historical Park. Increases Recreational Access to Grounds and Trails. Begins June 24, 2020. Morristown, NJ - Following guidance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Wellesley plastic surgeon has agreed to pay $25,000 to resolve allegations that he provided controlled substances to family members outside the usual course of his professional practice and failed to maintain records and accurate inventories of controlled substances.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Philippines. Overview: The Philippine government adapted its military, law enforcement, and counter-radicalization efforts to address shifting threats from terrorist groups that continued to operate primarily in the country’s South. The Philippines continued to cooperate with the United States, notably...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Germany. Overview: Germany continued its CT cooperation with the United States and the international community as a member of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS and the GCTF and in multilateral CT operations in Africa and the Middle East. In 2019, Germany allocated more resources toward combating all...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Mali. Overview: The Government of Mali (GOM) is receptive to U.S. CT assistance. Terrorist activities increased in quantity and lethality in 2019, and continued to target civilians, Mali’s Armed Forces (FAMa), international peacekeepers, and international military forces. Terrorist groups active in Mali...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Trevor C. Maaske, age 21, of Loomis, Nebraska, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. to 144 months’ imprisonment for receipt and distribution of child pornography. There is no parole in the federal system. After his...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Defendants Used GPS Tracking Device to Stalk and Target a Shooting Victim.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Canada. Overview: Canada remains one of the strongest and most able U.S. partners in the global fight against terrorism, and CT cooperation with Canada is excellent. Prosecutors continued to face challenges in bringing to trial cases underpinned by battlefield evidence. Canada generally declined to repatriate...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana - The Bureau of Reclamation will replace the aging suspension bridge located at Barrett’s Diversion Dam, 8 miles south of Dillon, Montana in the fall of 2020. The pedestrian bridge was built in the late 1970’s by the Youth Conservation Corps under the direction of Reclamation to allow access over the Beaverhead River and open up additional recreation areas on the east side of the river.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for a North Texas concrete manufacturing company that agreed to forfeit $3 million back in January was sentenced June 16 for his role in a scheme to employ illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas man who was arrested in Great Bend in September after fleeing from officers was indicted today on federal drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Oman. Overview: Oman is an important regional CT partner that actively worked in 2019 to prevent terrorists from conducting attacks or using the country as a safe haven. The Omani government remains concerned about the conflict in Yemen and the potential for al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIS-Yemen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Tennessee man was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for traveling from Tennessee to Henrico County in order to meet up with and sexually abuse two minor children.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Norway. Overview: Norway and the United States maintained good collaboration on CT. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) continued to assess that individuals and groups inspired by “extreme Islamist groups" represented the most significant terrorist threat to Norway. Norway saw an increased level of ...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Pakistan. Overview: Pakistan continued to serve as a safe haven for certain regionally focused terrorist groups. It allowed groups targeting Afghanistan, including the Afghan Taliban and affiliated HQN, as well as groups targeting India, including LeT and its affiliated front organizations, and JeM...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Approximately 1.7 kilograms of cocaine and cocaine base, 27 pounds of marijuana, over 200 rounds of ammunition and 11 firearms recovered during investigation.
