Two Montclair Teens Charged In ISIS Terror Plot: Feds
Two Montclair 19-year-olds, including the son of a prominent poet, have been arrested and charged with their involvement in planning an aborted terrorist attack in Detroit on Halloween, federal authorities said.
From October 2024 through this month, Tomas Khan Jimenez-Gazelle of Montclair and Saeed Al Mureh, a Washington State resident, used encrypted messaging apps as they planned to travel to Turkey and then to Syria to join ISIS, Alina Habba, acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey said.
The two talked travel plans, physical training, weapons, including firearms and …
Yonkers Man Threatened To 'Crucify' Police, City Mayor, Officials Say
A Westchester man who had expressed support for radical Islamic extremism faces prison time after allegedly making repeated threats to kill police officers and a mayor, officials said.
Yonkers resident Ridon Kola, age 32, was arrested on Friday, March 17, and charged with making threats to kill members of the city's police department and the city's mayor, Mike Spano, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
Kola first allegedly started making the threats on Nov. 19, 2021, when he posted a message in Albanian on a Yonkers PD official social med…
