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3 March: The New IRA were blamed for an attempted mortar attack on a Derry police station. The PSNI stopped a van containing four mortars and the roof partly removed to allow the mortars to be fired. Two men were arrested at the scene, including the van driver and a motorcyclist following the van, while another man was arrested shortly after.
By the late 1970s, armed robberies in the Republic of Ireland were taking place almost every other day. In 1978, there were 237 armed robberies, with £837,000 stolen. The following year, nearly £2.25 million was taken in 250 armed robberies. The IRA was believed to be responsible for about half of the money being stolen. [16]
The Aryan Republican Army (ARA), also dubbed "The Midwest Bank bandits" by the FBI and law-enforcement, was a white nationalist terrorist gang [1] which robbed 22 banks in the Midwest from 1994 to 1996. The bank robberies were spearheaded by Donna Langan.
Schultz, who was arrested at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, was paid approximately $42,000 to provide an individual h US Army intelligence analyst charged with selling military secrets to China Skip to ...
Around 100 IRA and INLA members were then arrested in Derry on his evidence, of whom 35 were charged with terrorist offences. [14] In November, Gilmour's father was abducted by the IRA. He was held in secret in an unknown location for almost a year. [15] Gilmour was then sent to Cyprus and then Newcastle by the RUC.
People involved in the scheme used various stories, such as that money had been put into a person’s account by mistake and needed to be refunded, or that the victim faced an arrest warrant ...
All three men were cleared of conspiracy to aid terrorists and to commit murder. They were later sentenced on the less serious smuggling charge. [77] The IRA leadership denied knowledge of the arms buys. In April 2002 it was reported in media outlets that the IRA had bought at least twenty Russian AN-94 assault rifles in Moscow in late 2001 ...
On February 16, the Kentucky National Guard surrounded the Newport Courthouse, to arrest six public officials: Mayor Joseph Hermann, Frank Bregel chief of police, Conrad Matz Campbell County attorney, patrolman John Sheeran and Charles Bullet, and county detective Edward "Buck" Hamilton. All were on Prohibition conspiracy charges.