Daily Intel Brief
Another explosion rocks Crimea, members of the Genovese and Bonnano crime families are criminally charged, and a Mayo Clinic member pled guilty to terrorism charges...
Counterterrorism
A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator pleaded guilty Tuesday to a terrorism charge, more than two years after he was arrested for telling paid FBI informants that he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and that he wanted to carry out lone…
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested on charges of making threats of violence against Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel. Adam Bies, 46, of Mercer, was arrested late Friday in Mercer. He made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday (August 15) in…
Military & Defense
A blast at an ammunition depot in the village of Maiskoye in Crimea injured at least two people, local authorities said Tuesday, in the second incident in a week to rock the Russian-controlled peninsula. Russia’s ministry of defense has blamed sabotage for the Tuesday…
Three Syrian soldiers were killed and six wounded in a Turkish air strike on military posts in the Aleppo countryside on Tuesday, state media quoted a military source as saying. Turkish warplanes targeted the posts from 14:37 p.m. to 15:00 p.m. (11:37-12:00 GMT); the Syrian…
Cybersecurity
A water company that supplies drinking water to over 1.6 million people in the UK says it has been hit by a cyber attack. But the criminal gang involved appears to have claimed it had breached a different water utilities firm. South Staffordshire Water says it has been the…
Earlier this month, numerous official websites in Taiwan were taken down by a series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The targeted websites included the island’s Presidential Office, National Defence Ministry, the Foreign Affairs Ministry and its largest…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A Swedish citizen detained in Iran on suspicion of espionage might face other charges, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Masoud Setayeshi said on Tuesday in a televised news conference. The suspect, who remains unnamed, had been under surveillance…
A federal judge rejected the government’s proposed prison sentences for former Annapolis-based Navy engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, six months after they pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to sell classified nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign government, saying…
Transnational Organized Crime
Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, two indictments were unsealed charging nine defendants with racketeering, illegal gambling, money laundering conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and related offenses. As alleged, charged with racketeering are: Anthony Pipitone…
A boat captain who attempted to smuggle 21 noncitizens in May 2021, resulting in the death of three people, was sentenced Aug. 12 in federal court following a multiagency investigation that included Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)…