Homeland Security News

A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered by Lancaster County Crime Stoppers for information leading to the arrest of a person of interest Lancaster City Police believe planted an improvised explosive device at City Hall.

On Saturday, May 30, 2020, police say a Lancaster City maintenance employee located two improvised explosive devices in the immediate area of City Hall, located at 120 N. Duke St.

Lancaster Police detectives were notified of the devices, which were found to contain gasoline and materials that were supposed to ignite the contents, and launched an investigation.

According to police, detectives located several video surveillance cameras in the area where the explosives were planted. After viewing footage, detectives were able to find images of a person of interest, which police are asking for help to identify.

Read more: CBS 21 (Harrisburg)

Secret recordings have exposed a neo-Nazi militant group with U.S. ties trying to recruit and groom teenagers ready to incite a global race war.

The covert recordings, first reported by the BBC, catch senior members of The Base, a hate group started in the United States, interviewing young applicants, discussing their prospects and ways to radicalize them.

The group's founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro, a 47-year-old American who now directs members of his group from St. Petersburg, Russia, is heard asking prospective members about their ethnicity, radicalization journey and their experience with weapons.

Read more: Fox News

During a live public briefing on Facebook last month, "someone very casually suggested" the Los Angeles County's public health director should be shot, the director said.

"I didn't immediately see the message, but my husband did, my children did, and so did my colleagues," Dr. Barbara Ferrer said Monday in a statement.

It's just one of the many threats of violence public health workers are facing across the nation "on a regular basis" as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, Ferrer said.
Whether it's advising people to avoid large groups or encouraging people to wear face coverings in public, health officials -- both at the local and federal level -- have spent the last few months updating Americans on how to remain safe during the pandemic and avoid spreading the virus.

Read more: CNN

The suspect in the Reading stabbings was twice assessed by security services but was deemed to pose no danger of staging an attack, it has emerged.

Khairi Saadallah, 25, was referred to Prevent, the government’s anti-radicalisation strategy, and then to MI5 in the past two years. He was arrested on Saturday following the stabbing to death of three men in a park in Reading, Berkshire.

Investigators are picking through his life as they search for evidence of the motivation for the stabbings.

Saadallah was arrested shortly after 7pm on Saturday. The next morning, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, senior national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism, determined it should be treated as a terrorist attack, but with investigators keeping an open mind as to motivation.

Read more: The Guardian (UK)