November 17th, 20170DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Dearborn Heights Police Department is conducting a joint investigation with the FBI and other local law enforcement agencies after finding threats to houses of worship and an abandoned firearm in a bag.
None of the religious institutions threatened are located in Dearborn Heights, but in other cities;...
November 17th, 20173DEARBORN — Amid a recent spike in threats against places of worship, officials and mosques in Metro Detroit are tightening security and bashing a new gun legislation that passed in the Michigan Senate last week.
It was tense at the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday, Nov. 8, when the Senate passed in a 25-12 vote a bill allowing the...
November 5th, 20170SUTHERLAND SPRINGS- A gunman entered a church in a small town in southeast Texas on Sunday and began firing, resulting in many fatalities and injuries, a county commissioner told Reuters.
The gunman was killed several miles from the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 40 miles (65 km) east of San Antonio, said Guadalupe...
October 26th, 20170WASHINGTON ― The U.S. government has broadened an interpretation of which citizens can be subject to physical or digital surveillance to include “homegrown violent extremists,” according to official documents seen by Reuters.
The change last year to a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities...
October 21st, 20170DETROIT — The Federal Bureau of Investigation Division in Detroit (FBI) issued a statement on Wednesday, that the FBI, along with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), rescued 84 minors from human traffickers, and 120 traffickers were arrested. The operation was conducted nation- wide titled "Operation Cross...
October 6th, 20170DEARBORN — To those who are regularly held for questioning at airports or border crossings and believe they may be wrongfully placed on a federal watch list, the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center has news: You are most likely a terrorist or somehow connected to a suspected terrorist.
In Dearborn, where about half of residents are...
October 4th, 20170With a large population of Muslim and Arab Americans, Dearborn has the most per capita residents on a shadowy and unaccountable watchlist. It is nearly impossible to find out if you’re on it, let alone get your name off.
By Christopher Mathias, Rowaida Abdelaziz, Hassan Khalifeh, and Afaf Humayun
DEARBORN, Mich. — There’s...
September 3rd, 20170WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department said it had no evidence to support the unsubstantiated claim made in March by President Donald Trump that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
There has never been any evidence to support Trump’s assertion on Twitter that...
August 28th, 20170YPSILANTI ― An Ypsilanti man is facing federal charges after weapons without serial numbers were found in a storage unit in Ann Arbor. He was detained before he was due to fly to the Middle East with his family.
Yousef Mohammad Ramadan, 28, is charged with possession of a firearm with an wiped out serial number, which had moved in...
June 22nd, 20170WASHINGTON ― President Trump said on Thursday he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, after suggesting last month that he might have recordings that could damage the former FBI director.
"With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking...
June 12th, 20171AUGUSTA, GA.- A U.S. intelligence contractor accused of illegally leaking a classified report on Russian interference in U.S. elections to a media outlet pleaded not guilty on Thursday to an espionage offense, and a federal judge denied her request for bail.
Reality Leigh Winner, 25, is accused of passing the top secret National...
June 12th, 20170
PORTLAND- The man accused of murdering two men and wounding a third on a Portland, Oregon, train was led away from a courtroom on Wednesday by sheriff's deputies as he shouted that he had acted in self defense.
Jeremy Christian, 35, had stood quietly in a glass-walled holding cell in the courtroom throughout a brief appearance until...
June 12th, 20171WASHINGTON- Former FBI Director James Comey accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of firing him to try to undermine the agency's investigation of possible collusion by Trump's campaign with Russia's alleged efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
In the most eagerly anticipated U.S. congressional hearing in years,...
June 10th, 20170Local and national articles are alarming readers with tales of an insidious "Dearborn cleric" who is apparently "popular" and "inspirational" to ISIS members.
The headlines, however, have it all wrong.
He is neither a cleric nor has he ever really been visible in Dearborn. Furthermore, his obscurity can hardly award him with any...
June 9th, 20170DEARBORN — A Dearborn man whose home was raided by the FBI on June 1 was arrested in Livonia later that night on suspicion of links to Hezbollah, a U.S. designated terrorist organization, the Justice Department announced on Thursday, June 8.
Both Samer El Debek, a Lebanese American truck driver who moved to Michigan from New York a...
May 12th, 20171In another display of power overreach, Trump played Nixon when he fired FBI director James Comey.
Or perhaps he thought he was still on the Apprentice, with "You're fired" as his only misguided attempt at wielding power.
Here, in firing Comey, the ends do not justify the means; the Americans are paying attention to the cause of...
April 18th, 20170The Federal Bureau of Investigation busted a planned mass attack by Steven Boehle, 50, on Tuesday.
A complaint obtained Monday that had been filed in a federal court said that a search warrant was carried out at Boehle's home, where 1,000 rounds of ammo were discovered.
The complaint added that Boehle displayed "sovereign...
April 2nd, 20170DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Monday, Khalil Abu Rayyan, a 22-year-old accused of supporting ISIS, told U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh that he embarrassed Islam during a hearing that ended with a postponed sentencing.
"I never intended to hurt anyone," the Dearborn Heights man said. "My behavior caused embarrassment to myself, my...
March 14th, 20170DEARBORN HEIGHTS- On Monday, the sentencing for Khalil Abu Rayyan, a Dearborn Heights man accused of supporting ISIS, was postponed after Detroit’s federal courthouse was ordered closed due to harsh weather.
At 4 p.m., an hour into sentencing, U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh declared that the U.S. District Court was ordered...
