Tensions High During Standoff At Dallas Police Headquarters

Dallas police HQ shooting: Suspect killed during standoff
By Jason Hanna and Joe Sutton, CNN
Updated 2:44 PM ET, Sat June 13, 2015

UPDATE
Dallas police HQ attack: Suspect shot after standoff
By Jason Hanna, Ben Brumfield and Joe Sutton, CNN
Updated 11:29 AM ET, Sat June 13, 2015
Video Source: CNN
Standoff continues after Dallas Police HQ attack
WFAA
WFAA Staff
9:25 a.m. CDT June 13, 2015

"Witnesses observed what they believed to be multiple suspects firing guns at the Dallas Police Department's headquarters," Chief Brown said. "The suspects were parked in front of police headquarters. As police officers arrived, the suspects rammed Dallas police officers' squad cars and began shooting at the officers, striking the squad cars but missing the officers."

The area around Dallas police headquarters was sealed off after suspicious packages were found following a shootout. (Photo: WFAA)

DALLAS — Dallas police were in a standoff Saturday morning after suspects in an armored van opened fire on the department's headquarters before leading officers on a chase to Hutchins, about 10 miles southeast.

Just before 9 a.m., police executed a planned detonation on the vehicle as the standoff reached roughly eight hours.

The armored van was "disabled" by police at 5:40 a.m. Sources told News 8 that the suspect in the armored van may have been injured in the initial shootout Saturday.

Police had not communicated with the suspect for quite some time, as of 8:30 a.m. Police were using robots to examine the suspect's vehicle.

The South Side on Lamar apartment complex in the 1400 block of South Lamar was evacuated as a precaution after one or more bombs were discovered outside police headquarters. read more here

Fort Carson bomb squad responds to hand grenades at police station

Police Substation Evacuated When Woman Brings Hand Grenades
KKTV News
July 24, 2013

The bomb squad from Fort Carson was called to a Colorado Springs police station when a woman showed up with two hand grenades.

She left them in her car and went into the substation to tell police about the grenades. She says she found them in a storage unit that had belonged to a family member who had died.

Police had to evacuate their station while the bomb squad checked them out.
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Fort Bragg school bomb threat cleared school

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Feb. 13, 2013
Shughart Schools complex cleared after bomb threat
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – The Shughart School complex in Fort Bragg’s Linden Oaks community has been cleared by law enforcement officials after a bomb threat was reported to school administrators around noon, Feb. 13. Students at both Shughart Elementary and Middle schools were evacuated from school grounds to near-by facilities and explosive ordnance teams cleared the buildings.

“Our school evacuation and emergency response procedures worked exactly as we have rehearsed and tested them,” said Tom McCollum, Fort Bragg spokesman.

All students and school administrators have been accounted for.

Families were notified by the Fort Bragg Schools administration and children released to parents and guardians shortly after 2 p.m.

AWOL soldier gets life term for Fort Hood plot

AWOL soldier gets life term for Fort Hood plot
By By SARAH KUTA
5 minutes ago

WACO, Texas (AP) — An AWOL soldier convicted of collecting bomb-making materials for what he told authorities would be a "massive attack" on a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops was sentenced Friday to life in prison.

Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim, was planning a religious mission to win "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recorded jail conservation with his mother played for jurors at trial.

U.S. District Judge Walter allowed Abdo to represent himself at the sentencing after the 22-year-old told him last month that he and his attorneys weren't communicating effectively.

A federal jury convicted Abdo in May on six charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. He was AWOL from Fort Campbell, Ky., when arrested with bomb-making materials last summer at a Fort Hood-area motel.

He also was found guilty of attempted murder of U.S. officers or employees and four counts of possessing a weapon in furtherance of a federal crime of violence.

In a recorded police interview, Abdo said he wanted to carry out the attack "because I don't appreciate what my unit did in Afghanistan." His plan, according to what he told authorities, was to place a bomb in a busy restaurant filled with soldiers, wait outside and shoot anyone who survived — and become a martyr after police killed him.
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Soldier Accused In Bomb Plot Attacks Officers In Courthouse Elevator

Soldier Accused In Bomb Plot Attacks Officers In Courthouse Elevator
WACO (April 20, 2012)

Army Pfc. Jason Abdo, who’s accused of plotting to set off a bomb in a restaurant frequented by Fort Hood soldiers, attacked a U.S. marshal and a deputy sheriff who were escorting him back to jail Friday evening after a pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court in Waco.

Abdo and the two officers were in an elevator in the Waco Federal Building when he bit completely through his lip and then spat what one source said was a significant amount of blood on the two officers.

The incident happened after U.S. District Judge Walter Smith ruled that Abdo’s confession is admissible.

Smith made the ruling after hearing several hours of testimony Friday afternoon on a defense motion seeking to suppress evidence obtained at the time of Abdo’s arrest in July 2011 at a motel in Killeen.
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Two Twentynine Palms Marines are in custody after bomb scare

Two Marines in Custody After Bomb Scare
Friday, April 6, 2012
By Beth Ford Roth

Two Twentynine Palms Marines are in custody this morning after police found explosives in the back of their truck at a Redondo Beach shopping center. read more here

A 20-year Army officer at Lewis-McChord detained in bomb threat

Soldier at Lewis-McChord detained in bomb threat

(CBS/AP) TACOMA, Wash. - A 20-year Army officer in Washington state threatened to blow up the state Capitol and kill his superior officer, his estranged wife and his girlfriend, authorities said Tuesday, adding scrutiny to the troubled base of a soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting spree.

Lt. Col Robert Underwood allegedly told his daughter "he was going to do something crazy and it would be on the news, the world would know about it," according to court documents (PDF).

Underwood was arrested Monday night and pleaded not guilty to felony harassment charges.

Prosecutors allege he told his girlfriend he'd paid a hit man $150,000 to kill both his wife and superior officer. Underwood is allegedly in the middle of a nasty divorce and custody battle.

A federal official tells CBS News that federal charges against Underwood are not expected.

Authorities believe the suspect "has some issues" and the threats he allegedly made were made in offhand remarks to various family members and associates. There is no evidence at the moment that the soldier had the wherewithal to carry out any kind of attack.
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Saginaw VA evacuated after bomb threat

UPDATE: Patients, workers return to VA hospital after evacuation
Published: Wednesday, August 03, 2011
By Justin L. Engel
The Saginaw News
SAGINAW — State police have given workers and patients the OK to return to Lutz Veterans Affairs Medical Center after someone called in a bomb threat this morning, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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Patients, workers return to VA hospital after evacuation

VA bomb threat only "a joke" man said

Courthouse bomb threat suspect charged; capture took only an hour


By Matt Snyder
Herald Staff Writer

MERCER COUNTY —
Only 60 minutes after a Hermitage man allegedly phoned a bomb threat into Mercer County’s Veterans Affairs office, sheriff’s deputies had the courthouse evacuated and the man in custody, said Jeff Greenburg, county public information chief.


According to deputies, Ronald E. Garrett, 61, of 902 Biscayne Road, called the courthouse at 3 p.m. and confirmed with a secretary that he was speaking to the veterans affairs office. Sheriff’s deputies said he asked, “Is there a bomb in your building?”

Then Garrett hung up, deputies said.

Chief Deputy Gary Hartman tried calling the number back several times, receiving a garbled male voice, deputies said. Then, the 911 Center traced the number.

At 3:20 p.m., the courthouse was evacuated.

The 911 Center told sheriff’s deputies that Garrett owns the cell phone which was used to call the courthouse. They also said 911 was called 13 times in the past with the same phone, deputies said.

Deputies went to Garrett’s house. Meanwhile, Garrett also told a deputy who called him that he had a score to settle with the federal Veterans Administration office and that he was in the VA office’s parking lot in Hermitage. He mumbled something about a gun, deputies said.
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