Security Incidents Category
Why do fake terror attacks seem so much like actual package bomb and letter attacks?
Year 2018
October 22, 2018 Cesar Altieri Sayoc Mail Pipe Bombs Over one dozen packages containing pipe bombs were mailed via the U.S. Postal Service system. Bombs appeared to be capable of exploding but none went off. Suspect, Cesar Sayoc Jr., also referred to by the media as the "MAGA bomber,"[15] was arrested in Plantation, Florida, and his white Dodge van with windows decorated with anti-democrat political posters from his twitter and facebook feed seized on October 26 in connection with mailing the explosive devices.[16] The FBI is treating the investigation as domestic terrorism.[17] If convicted, Sayoc could face up to 48 years in prison.[18]
Wed October 3, 2018 William Clyde Allen III Ricin Letters Mail Attack The New York Times reported that the F.B.I. arrested Navy veteran William Clyde Allen III at home in Logan, Utah after two envelopes addressed to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and to the chief of the United States Navy, Adm. John Richardson set off alarms in a mail screening facility outside the Pentagon on Monday Oct 1. They were suspected of containing poison ricin but actually contained castor beans, the raw material from which ricin is made. (1) He confessed that he purchased castor beans and sent them in letters (2) The suspect claimed that he'd sent “letters with the same contents to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Queen of England, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the secretary of the Air Force.” The letters “included a note that read, 'Jack and the Missile Bean Stock Powder'” and contained what “appeared to be ground castor beans.” told investigators he had purchased 100 castor beans online and that “he wanted to have them in case World War III broke out.” FBI affidavit states Allen has “issued numerous threats” against government officials. In 2015, he emailed the CIA threatening to kill then-President Barack Obama “if the agency did not stop infringing on his constitutional rights”; in 2017, he emailed a bomb threat to Lackland Air Force Base" in Texas; and, in 2018, he sent an email to the Utah Department of Public Safely about “multiple imminent radiation attacks.” He told authorities he was forward to Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' General Conference (3)
March 26, 2018 Thanh Cong Phan Suspicious Packages Sent To Military Bases Case Everett, WA man Thanh Cong Phan (Vietnamese name) is arrested and charged with sending suspicious packages to FBI, Washington, D.C.-area military bases. Each box contained a letter “with ramblings about neuropsychology, mind control” and terrorism. They were sent to government mail-processing facilities at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, where the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is headquartered; Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, DC; the CIA in Langley, Virginia; and Naval Surface Warfare Station in Dahlgren, Virginia. The package at Fort McNair was addressed to the National Defense University and contained black powder and a fuse. It was ess than a week after the suspect in similar terrorist style serial bombings in Austin blew himself up.
February 26, 2018 Fake Bombs and Anthrax Letter Sent to 2 Churches and High School in Rochester MN Kyle John Miller, 20 of Dodge Center was arrested after he was found by police after a call of a suspicious man at a Mayo Clinic Generose Parking Ramp at St. Mary’s Hospital with a rifle pointed to his head. He shot himself, but it turned out to be a bb gun and he admitted to placing fake bombs and anthtrax letters at Oak Hills Wesleyan Church and Calvary Evangelical Church and Century High school with threatening messages. The devices were determined to be harmless, and Miller had left an envelope at Century with $267 in cash for a scholarship, and one of the container he left at one of the churches had $100. Miller was sent for a mental evaluation which determined that at the time of the offense, Miller “was laboring under such a defect of reason that he was unable to know the nature of the acts constituting the offenses charged in the complaint and he was not able to understand that his actions were wrong,” Miller was book and charged with five terrorist counts of threats of violence. Those charges were dismissed after a hearing on October 29, even though his actions seemed to anticipate later attacks in 2018 people sending letters with white powder, castor bean ricin letters and working pipe bombs to Trump family, pentagon and democratic leaders. After considering the available evidence, Judge Joseph Chase ruled that Miller was mentally ill and could not be held responsible for his actions.
February 12, 2018 Daniel Frisiello Massachusetts Mailing Threats Glitter Bombs 1st letter containing white powder, which turned out to be harmless corn starch, was opened by Trump Jr.’s wife, Vanessa Haydon Trump, on February 12, who was taken to hospital as precaution. Daniel Frisiello, 24, of Beverly, Massachusetts, is accused of sending a threatening letter containing white powder to Donald Trump Jr.’s New York City apartment, along with mailing threats to four other people around the country, federal prosecutors say.(1) He lived with his parents and worked at Works for catholic charities child care center. Frisiello allegedly sent envelopes to at least five high-profile individuals across the country, including Stanford University professor Dauber, that bore Boston postmarks containing suspicious white powder and a note indicating or implying that the powder was dangerous, according to the FBI. (2)
February 26, 2018 Fake Bombs and Anthrax Letter Sent to 2 Churches and High School in Rochester MN Kyle John Miller, 20 of Dodge Center was arrested after he was found by police after a call of a suspicious man at a Mayo Clinic Generose Parking Ramp at St. Mary’s Hospital with a rifle pointed to his head. He shot himself, but it turned out to be a bb gun and he admitted to placing fake bombs and anthtrax letters at Oak Hills Wesleyan Church and Calvary Evangelical Church and Century High school with threatening messages. The devices were determined to be harmless, and Miller had left an envelope at Century with $267 in cash for a scholarship, and one of the container he left at one of the churches had $100. Miller was sent for a mental evaluation which determined that at the time of the offense, Miller “was laboring under such a defect of reason that he was unable to know the nature of the acts constituting the offenses charged in the complaint and he was not able to understand that his actions were wrong,” Miller was book and charged with five terrorist counts of threats of violence. Those charges were dismissed after a hearing on October 29, even though his actions seemed to anticipate later attacks in 2018 people sending letters with white powder, castor bean ricin letters and working pipe bombs to Trump family, pentagon and democratic leaders. After considering the available evidence, Judge Joseph Chase ruled that Miller was mentally ill and could not be held responsible for his actions.
February 12, 2018 Daniel Frisiello Massachusetts Mailing Threats Glitter Bombs 1st letter containing white powder, which turned out to be harmless corn starch, was opened by Trump Jr.’s wife, Vanessa Haydon Trump, on February 12, who was taken to hospital as precaution. Daniel Frisiello, 24, of Beverly, Massachusetts, is accused of sending a threatening letter containing white powder to Donald Trump Jr.’s New York City apartment, along with mailing threats to four other people around the country, federal prosecutors say.(1) He lived with his parents and worked at Works for catholic charities child care center. Frisiello allegedly sent envelopes to at least five high-profile individuals across the country, including Stanford University professor Dauber, that bore Boston postmarks containing suspicious white powder and a note indicating or implying that the powder was dangerous, according to the FBI. (2)
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