Friday, May 10, 2013
The Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force, a unit made up of federal, state and local law enforcement state, had access to a file on Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to the FBI.
Though Boston’s top police officials said he did not know about the now-deceased Boston Marathon bomber until the day he was killed, an FBI official said at least some Boston police officers had access to a file on him through a shared database. FBI special agent Richard Deslauriers said in a Thursday press statement members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a federally-sponsored unit that included Boston police officials, assessed accused marathon bomber Tameraln Tsarnaev in 2011 via the Guardian database, an internal system shared by law enforcement at the federal, state and local levels. “Many state and local departments, including the [Boston Police Department], have representatives who are full-time members of the [Joint Terrorism …
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Boston Marathon bombings suspect currently hospitalized told FBI agents that he and his brother detonated the bombs near the finish line, the Boston Globe reports.
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect currently hospitalized admitted to FBI agents that he and his brother detonated the bombs planted near the finish line, the Boston Globe reports. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, made the reported admission on Sunday from his bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and had not yet been given a Miranda warning, the Globe reported. A "senior police official" told the Globe that authorities were not concerned about Tsarnaev not being read his Miranda rights, which means any statements he made would not be admissible in court, due to testimony of the Tsarnaev brother's alleged carjacking victim. According to the criminal complaint filed against Tsarnaev, during the carjacking on Thursday night one of the brothers…
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Agents from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI were at Agiltron on Presidential Way in Woburn.
HSI, ICE & FBI: an alphabet soup of federal authorities were on-scene today at Agiltron, Inc., a fiber optics company headquartered at 15 Presidential Way in Woburn. According to ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein, "Federal law enforcement, along with our state and local partners, are executing a federal search warrant at a business in Woburn." Feinstein did not say specifically that Agiltron was the focus of the investigation but on-scene reporting confirmed agents were going in and out of that company's building today. Members of the Woburn Police Department were also on-scene. Feinstein could not comment on the record about the purpose of the investigation but said agents would be on-scene through the day. A source told Woburn Patch the …
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Woburn Police, Homeland Security and FBI activity still underway at Agiltron.
Update 11:50 a.m. WBZ-TV is reporting that sources tell them the Agiltron raid in Woburn is about the export of technology, not an immigration raid. Woburn Patch editor Richard Hosford says Woburn Police cars and unmarked cars are still outside the building that houses Agiltron — the same building that houses Lazer Craze, where police activity was seen outside earlier this morning. An official with a "Police/HSI" jacket was seen outside. HSI refers to Homeland Security Investigations, part of ICE, U.S. Customs & Immigration Enforcement. Update 11:24 a.m. Latest reports say that U.S. immigration officials are on-scene at a company called Agiltron, on Presidential Way. Woburn Patch editor Richard Hosford is now on-scene and will be …
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
A New York woman was convicted in federal court on Friday for sending four threatening letters to several people, including Sen. Scott Brown, and Attorney General Martha Coakley.
A New York woman faces up to 10 years in jail for sending Sen. Scott Brown and several others threatening letters in the mail, according to the Boston divison of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Roberta Cicora, 57, St. Johnsville, New York, pleaded guilty in court on Friday to mailing threatening communications to Sen. Brown and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley that included an unknown white powder. Cicora also sent a threatening letter to the Franklin County House of Correction in Greenfield, New York. Cicora’s white powder letters caused the offices that received them to close down until HAZMAT teams responded and determined that the letters did not pose a lethal threat to the safety of the workers there. Cicora will…
Friday, July 6, 2012
Here's how to check if you have this malware on your computer.
If you still have a pesky trojan malware on your computer by Monday, July 9, say goodbye to your Internet access, the FBI warns. Both Windows and Mac users are at risk; Linux users and smart phone and tablet users are safe, Forbes reports. The specific trojan malware, or "malicious software," is known as “DNS Changer,” which was discovered in 2007 and infected millions of computers globally. Visit the DNS Changer Working Group’s website to see if your computer is infected and to find out how to remove the malware. So how did the DNS Changer claw its way into millions of computers? Every time you search the Internet, you trigger the Domain Name System, which turns a domain name like woburn.patch.com into an Internet Protocol (IP) address …
Steve Marino
5:33 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Of course it is intent! We were fighting a war with the intent to win. You use any means that you have, including those that have the same will as ours to remove the scum that invaded that country. We had no way of knowing that some religious nut would want to fight us years later. And we killed him for it like every other enemy before him. more ›