News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Malaysia. Overview: Although there were no ISIS-affiliated attacks in Malaysia in 2019, the country remained a source, a transit point, and, to a lesser extent, destination country for terrorist groups including ISIS, Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), al-Qa’ida, and Jemaah Islamiyah. Suspected ISIS supporters...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Senegal. Overview: Although there were no reported terrorist attacks in Senegal in 2019, the Government of Senegal increasingly considers itself a likely potential target given ongoing terrorist activities in West Africa. In light of these concerns, Senegal continued to work closely with U.S. military...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Indictment Alleges Illegal Transportation and Coercion of Minors.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
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: Fargo - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that on June 24, 2020, Steven Ralph Lindblad, appeared in Federal Court at an initial appearance and arraignment hearing. The United States District Court for the District of North Dakota unsealed an Indictment revealing that a federal grand jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Juan Carlos Brewster, 36, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 108 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Brazil. Overview: Brazil and the United States maintained strong counterterrorism cooperation in 2019, building on collaborative efforts underway since the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Brazilian Federal Police (PF), Brazil’s lead counterterrorism agency, worked closely with the United States and other nations’...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Acting U.S. Attorney David Clay Fowlkes for the Western District of Arkansas, Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch of the FBI Little Rock Field Office and Peter Kapoukakis, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, Miami Field Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Albuquerque Man Charged with Making Threats Over the Internet.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Nepal. Overview: Nepal experienced no acts of international terrorism in 2019. Political violence in Nepal remained small in scale and involved attacks on large-scale infrastructure, government offices, or locations affiliated with political parties or officials. Violence occurring on or around the 2019...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: The Netherlands. Overview: The Netherlands continues to respond effectively to the global terrorist threat in border and transportation security, counterterrorist financing, CVE, and bilateral and multilateral CT cooperation. On December 9, the Dutch lowered their national threat level from “substantial" ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert E. Lighthizer requesting additional information regarding recent reports that two USTR staff members may have acted inappropriately. Specifically, the Chairman cited...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Jerome Davis, 52, of Milford, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: DENVER - As part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) proactive efforts to expand COVID-19 testing capabilities, ICE began offering voluntary testing June 9 to all current detainees and new admissions at the Aurora Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, Colorado. The expanded testing identified...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Mauritania. Overview: Mauritania remained a strong security and regional CT partner for the United States in 2019. Despite continued terrorist violence in neighboring Mali and regional threats that included those against Mauritania, the country has not suffered a terrorist attack on its soil since 2011.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Senegal. Overview: Although there were no reported terrorist attacks in Senegal in 2019, the Government of Senegal increasingly considers itself a likely potential target given ongoing terrorist activities in West Africa. In light of these concerns, Senegal continued to work closely with U.S. military...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Brian McIver, 49, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 96 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. McIver was also ordered to pay a $7,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony M. Girolamo, 43, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of transferring obscene material to a person he believed to be a minor, was sentenced to serve 21 months in prison by U.S...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Overview: Rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) established ties with ISIS in late 2018. Before its ISIS affiliation, the ADF previously attempted outreach to Islamist terrorist groups for multiple years, including online posts by some ADF members in 2016 and 2017...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Chad. Overview: In 2019, Chad experienced an estimated twofold increase in the number of terrorist attacks in the Lake Chad region from the previous year. Though the magnitude of the average attack has lessened since 2018, BH returned to the tactics of suicide bombing and IEDs, which had not been seen...
