Author: Michael Kunzelman
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Ex-NYPD officer sentenced to record 10 years for Jan. 6 riot
WASHINGTON • A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced Thursday to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters. Thomas Webster’s prison sentence is the longest among roughly…
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Authorities: 3 dead, trooper wounded in Maryland shooting
SMITHSBURG, Md. • A man opened fire at a manufacturing business in rural western Maryland on Thursday, killing three people before the suspect and a state trooper were wounded in a shootout, authorities said. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that three victims were found dead at Columbia Machine in Smithsburg…
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Armed man arrested for threat to kill Justice Kavanaugh
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man carrying a gun, a knife and zip ties was arrested Wednesday near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house in Maryland after threatening to kill the justice. Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, Calif., was charged with the attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice. During a court hearing, he consented to…
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Official guilty of illegally entering Capitol grounds Jan. 6
WASHINGTON • A federal judge Tuesday convicted an elected official from New Mexico of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct during the riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden heard one day of testimony without a jury…
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1st trial in Capitol riot ends in conviction on all counts
WASHINGTON • A Texas man was convicted Tuesday of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, a milestone victory for federal prosecutors in the first trial among hundreds of cases arising from last year’s riot. A jury also convicted Guy Wesley Reffitt of obstructing Congress’ joint session to certify the Electoral College vote on…
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FBI arrests 3 white supremacists ahead of pro-gun rally
GREENBELT, Md. • A former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men linked to a violent white supremacist group were arrested Thursday, just days before they were believed to be headed to a pro-gun rally in Virginia’s capital. The three men, members of The Base, were taken into custody on federal felony charges in…
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N.J. attackers linked to anti-Semitic fringe movement
JERSEY CITY, N.J. • The deadly shooting rampage at a New Jersey kosher market has cast a spotlight on a fringe movement known for its anti-Semitic strain of street preaching and its role in a viral-video confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial this year. Investigators believe that the man and woman who killed three people at…
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Man who fired on police station gets 195 years
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. • A gunman sentenced to 195 years in prison for an attack on a police station apologized Thursday to the parents of an undercover narcotics detective who was mistakenly shot and killed by a fellow officer during the ambush. Before a judge sentenced him, Michael Ford said he didn’t intend to harm…
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Warehouse shooter may have been mentally ill, says sheriff
ABERDEEN, Md. — Investigators have found evidence that the woman who killed three people and wounded others before killing herself at a Maryland drugstore warehouse was suffering from a mental illness, a law enforcement official said Friday. Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told news reporters Friday that the suspect, 26-year-old Snochia Moseley of Baltimore County,…
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Warehouse shooting: 4 dead, including suspect
ABERDEEN, Md. • A woman working a temporary job at a drugstore warehouse in Maryland got into an argument at work Thursday morning and began shooting colleagues, killing three before fatally shooting herself, authorities and witnesses said. The suspect was “shooting like crazy,” one witness said. She was a temporary employee at the Rite Aid…