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16-05-2025
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A.L. man sentenced to more than 3 years in prison tied to traffic stop, pipe bomb
May 15—An Albert Lea man was sentenced to three years and three months in prison on Thursday tied to a traffic stop last July that led to the evacuation of the Freeborn County courthouse. Adam Alan Penhollow in January was found guilty after a four-day trial of fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle; fifth-degree drug possession; possession of an explosive or incendiary device; dangerous weapons-sell or possess a suppressor not lawfully possessed; DWI-refuse to submit to a chemical test as required by a search warrant; possessing ammunition or a firearm after a conviction of a drug offense. He pleaded guilty to driving after revocation before the trial. Court documents state an officer was alerted to Penhollow after observing a possible fight outside the Albert Lea Walmart pharmacy. A male left the group and got into a gray Kia Soreno registered to Penhollow's spouse. The officer believed the male was Penhollow, who was driving with a revoked license, and after verifying this information with dispatchers, the officer attempted to pull over Penhollow on Sorenson Road south of Hammer Road. Before turning on his lights, the officer noted Penhollow reportedly did not properly signal his turn. Court documents state instead of of pulling over, the vehicle accelerated, and the officer activated its siren. The vehicle reportedly accelerated before turning into Paradise Road. After the officer used the public address system in his car to address Penhollow by name, Penhollow reportedly stopped the vehicle and was arrested for driving after revocation and felony fleeing. In a search of the vehicle, officers seized a locked gun safe, thinking that there was a gun locked in there, but ultimately found a pipe bomb and over 9 grams of methamphetamine once it was brought back to the Law Enforcement Center. When authorities found out there was a pipe bomb inside, they evacuated the courthouse and the St. Paul Bomb Squad was called to remove the device from the building. The bomb squad examined it and concluded that it was a pipe bomb. After receiving a search warrant for Penhollow's home, officers found other firearms, ammunition, a sound suppressor attached to a sub-legal length barrel, a CO2 container used as an explosive device, cartridge reloading equipment, another explosive device and a partial home-built Sten submachine gun. Penhollow received credit for 314 days already spent in the Freeborn County jail. He will serve the remainder of his term at the St. Cloud prison.
Time of India
05-05-2025
- Time of India
NIA raids in 3 states in case of firing linked to Khalistani terrorist
Jaipur: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 3 carried out search operations at 10 locations in Rajasthan, Haryana, and Delhi as part of its investigation into the Neemrana hotel firing case of Sept 8, 2024, which was linked to Canada-based Khalistani terrorist Arsh Dalla. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The attack, which took place at Hotel Highway King, involved multiple rounds fired indiscriminately around the premises in an attempt to spread fear and coerce the management into paying extortion money. The two attackers, later identified as members of the Bambiha gang , are believed to be part of a larger terrorist-gangster nexus led by Dalla. From their spot inspection, Kotputli-Behror police suspected that the assailants had a pistol and a Sten gun-like carbine, capable of firing up to 10 rounds. The assilants loaded a magazine and fired a total of 35 rounds. Both atatckers fearlessly arrived at the hotel on a Splendor bike, parked it, and went in different directions. One fired bullets with a Sten gun at the shops outside, while the other went inside. He handed a slip demanding Rs 5 crore to the employee at the reception. During this, he looked at the CCTV camera and started firing with a pistol. The employee hid under the counter. Meanwhile, the firing from outside shattered the shop windows. The staff saved themselves by hiding.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
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How Reacher's Season 3 Finale Set Up Neagley Spinoff — Will You Watch?
A brief exchange at the close of Reacher's Season 3 finale seemed to set the tone for the Prime Video hit's upcoming Neagley spinoff. After Jack Reacher (played by Alan Ritchson), Frances Neagley (Maria Sten) and DEA agents Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) and Guillermo Villanueva (Roberto Montesinos) got the best of the supervillainous Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee), Neagley shared an observation with her onetime 110th MP Special Investigations Unit boss. More from TVLine Citadel Season 2 Delayed as Amazon Puts Spinoffs on Hold Reacher Season 3's Brutal, Final Brawl 'Might Be TV's Best Fight Sequence Ever,' Says 'Dutch Giant' - Grade It! Étoile Trailer: A Ballet Company Struggles to Survive in Amy Sherman-Palladino's New Amazon Comedy - Watch 'I figured it out — why you do what you do,…' Neagley said. 'It's not just because you need to put things right. And it's not because you're a 'little guy.' It's because you hate the big guy. You hate the big powerful sonsofbitches who think they can just get away with things. So you make sure they don't.' As Reacher himself noted, this is something Neagley surely realized before — at the very least, in the course of thwarting of the nefarious Big Guys they teamed up against in Seasons 1 and 2 — so the inclusion of this dialogue seemed to lay a foundation for Sten's Neagley spinoff, which has been filming since Feb. 18. Created by Reacher showrunner Nick Santora and Nicholas Wootton, Neagley follows the titular Chicago P.I. as she learns that a beloved friend from her past has been killed in a suspicious accident. 'Hell-bent on pursuing justice,' the official synopsis reads, 'Neagley uses everything she's learned from Jack Reacher and her time as a member of the 110 Special Investigators, setting herself on a dangerous path to uncover a menacing evil.' 'It's an interesting story, and it's a very personal one,' Sten told TVLine. 'Neagley is its own thing, but of course it's a 'sister' to Reacher, and I think it will be really, really cool to get to explore her world and see how people respond to it.' The Neagley cast also includes Damon Herriman (Justified) as Lawrence Cole, Greyston Holt (Bitten, Riverdale) as Detective Hudson Riley, Matthew Del Negro (Teen Wolf, Scandal) as Pierce Woodrow, Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as Renee, and Jasper Jones (To Die For) as Keno. 'We have a great cast that we've put together for this show,' Sten said. In addition to giving us the philosophy exchange quoted above, Reacher Season 3 shared a glimpse into Neagley's life in Chicago, where she has a snazzy P.I. firm that admittedly needs a little TLC after some of Quinn's goons came gunning for her. As Sten noted, '[Reacher set up] that she is out there living her own life, and at the same time she will assist Reacher when it's asked for. And even when it's not!' Neagley is executive-produced by Santora, Wootton, Lee Child (author of the Jack Reacher novels), Don Granger, Sam Hill, Adam Higgs, Lisa Kussner, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Matt of TVLine Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More 'Missing' Shows, Found! The Latest on Severance, Holey Moley, Poker Face, YOU, Primo, Transplant and 25+ Others
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24-03-2025
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Murderer claims he was wrongly jailed for ‘weaponising bicycle pump'
A murderer has claimed he was wrongly jailed over fears he could be plotting terror crimes by 'weaponising a bicycle pump'. Christodoulos Sotiriou, 59, was handed a life sentence in 1991 for stabbing photographer Dietmar Kirchner with a commando knife in a changing room after the pair accidentally clashed heads in a London swimming pool. Maj-Britt Kirchner, the victim's wife and the former head of Warner Brothers UK, reportedly learnt her husband had been killed while at the film premiere of Dick Tracy, while standing alongside the movie's stars Madonna and Warren Beatty. Sotiriou was freed from jail on licence in 2000, but recalled to prison in 2018 for 18 months over suspicions that he was connected to a cache of suspected weapon-making materials found hidden on Hampstead Heath. Police also found 'worrying' entries in journals at his home. Nicola Kohn, a Ministry of Justice barrister, told Central London County Court: 'These included out of context references to Hitler; weaponising a bicycle pump; using chemicals to induce a heart attack [and] cleaning up blood.' From the witness box, Sotiriou insisted that the journal entries in his home were simply random comments about things that 'pricked his interest'. 'Whatever I have thought of which pricks my interest, I'll write down for future reference,' he told the judge. Asked by Ms Kohn about a reference in one of his notebooks, which read 'how to weaponise a bike pump', he explained: 'These entries are 12 years old, but something might have pricked my interest in this and so I put it down.' He had no interest in 'extremist ideology', the court heard, with Sotiriou insisting: 'I never supported nor promoted nor endorsed any extremism at all.' Sotiriou, of north London, is suing the Government, claiming he was wrongfully locked up, with court documents putting the value of his claim at £60,000. He says he was unlawfully detained for 18 months in total. He continued to be held for almost a year after another person had been arrested and charged in relation to the Hampstead Heath cache. Defending against his claim of unlawful detention, the MoJ has insisted he was 'lawfully recalled' on the strength of information that 'the risk he posed in the community could not be managed other than by a recall to prison'. Judge Heather Baucher was told Sotiriou was released on licence from his murder sentence in August 2000, but jailed again in 2011 after he was found to be hoarding a cache of banned weapons – including a Second World War-style Sten machine gun and thousands of hollow-tipped bullets – in a hide in Epping Forest. The judge who sentenced him after he pleaded guilty to making and possessing weapons imposed the relatively short seven-year sentence – of which he served half – after deeming that he had a hobbyist's interest in the illegal stash, rather than posing a public danger. Judge Peter Clarke QC, sentencing, labelled him 'an anorak not a balaclava'. But after his release from that sentence in 2014, he was deemed a potential public danger and recalled to prison again in 2018. Detectives had mistakenly linked him to the discovery by Hampstead Heath park rangers of a cache of materials which could be used to make weapons. Sotiriou, who was living nearby, was pinpointed as a potential suspect due to 'the unique modus operandi and local knowledge', said MoJ barrister Ms Kohn, with witnesses also noting the alleged 'striking similarity' between the Hampstead Heath hide and his Epping Forest cache from 2010. Detectives also said they found 'a number of suspicious items' during a search of his home, along with 'concerning entries in various notebooks' including references to Hitler and weaponising a bike pump. A detective on the case had written to the probation service urging a recall and stating: 'The contents of his notebook that are detailed below show the signs of a man who would appear to be planning to carry out a violent attack at some stage in the future.' On September 28, 2018, the MoJ decided to recall him to custody on the strength of a probation report highlighting 'significant concerns regarding the danger he poses to the public'. But although his case was at one point referred to the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism unit, he was never charged with an offence in relation to the Hampstead Heath hide. Sotiriou served another 18 months until his eventual release by the Parole Board in March 2020, although someone else was arrested and charged in relation to the Hampstead Heath hide in April 2019. Ms Kohn accepted that in April 2019 'a different individual was arrested and charged in connection with the Hampstead Heath hides'. But she pointed out that other factors had also prompted Sotiriou's recall, highlighting evidence from a psychiatrist and concluding: 'While she does not consider there to be an immediate risk of future violence has the potential to be severe.' The judge will give her ruling at a later date. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
