Homeland Security News

A man involved in online extremist groups was given a two-year probationary sentence with 30 days intermittent confinement Friday in Alexandria federal court.

Brian Baynes, 23, pleaded guilty this year to illegally buying guns as a marijuana user. Another man described by prosecutors as a member of the white-supremacist group Atomwaffen Division, Andrew Thomasberg, 21, pleaded guilty to similar charges this month. Thomasberg has yet to be sentenced.

Federal law prohibits the possession of firearms while using or being addicted to controlled substances.

In online chats, according to court records, Thomasberg and a friend with the initials “B.B.” discussed guns, drug use and neo-Nazism online.

Read more: Washington Post

At least 10 people were killed and 25 wounded when a car bomb exploded on Saturday in a Syrian border town seized by Turkish-backed forces last month, witnesses and a rescuer said.

Tel Abyad was one of two border towns that saw some of the heaviest fighting when Ankara launched its cross-border offensive on Oct. 9 targeting Kurdish YPG forces in northeast Syria.

The YPG — which Ankara considers a terrorist group because of its ties to PKK Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey — had for years been allied to the United States in the fight against Islamic State. Turkey began the incursion after President Donald Trump pulled U.S. troops out of the area.

Read more: Reuters

Three police were killed in a bomb blast late on Friday at a police station in Colombia, after thousands gathered for renewed protests and sporadic looting erupted in the capital Bogota.

A police source told Reuters 10 officers were also injured in the explosion, in the town of Santander de Quilichao in the southwestern province of Cauca, known as a hot spot for drug trafficking and violence.

The source did not attribute the bombing to a particular armed group. Police are expected to hold a news conference on Saturday morning.

Three people were killed on Thursday as more than 250,000 people marched in a national strike to express growing discontent with President Ivan Duque’s government.

Read more: Reuters

Police in Pilot Point arrested a man after finding bombs in his car and a booby trap in his home rigged to harm anyone who entered the front door.

Ruendi Sanchez Juarez, 28, was arrested Friday on a charge of possessing prohibited weapons, namely an improvised explosive device, authorities said.

Police encountered Sanchez Juarez about 1:30 a.m. Friday while investigating a report of gunfire in the 11000 block of Fritcher Road in Pilot Point. They searched the area and found him sitting in a car nearby. A search of the vehicle turned up explosives, two of which were deemed to be live bombs, police said.

Read more: Dallas Morning News