Day: July 9, 2026

DOJ   A total of eight defendants now face federal charges related to the alleged plot to carry out an attack to kill government officials and others attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event held at the White House on June 14. All eight men were charged together in a two-count indictment returned in Columbus today. The indictment stems from an initial investigation and criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Ohio against Tycen C. Proper 19, of Danville, Ohio. Proper and four others charged federally by criminal complaint in Missouri, Nebraska and California were arrested the weekend of the UFC event. Two more defendants were charged by criminal complaint and arrested by the FBI approximately one week later in Washington and Missouri. This week, an eighth defendant, Chandler D. Scaggs, 21, of Chapmanville, West Virginia, was taken into custody in West Virginia. Scaggs was allegedly assigned to be one of the snipers in the plotted attack. An affidavit details that Scaggs was to be picked up by Proper to travel to Washington, D.C. Scaggs and others lost contact with Proper upon Proper’s arrest, but Scaggs allegedly indicated to the group that he was still willing to…

The Independent   A sophisticated scheme to pilfer rare and historical Chinese manuscripts from the UCLA library system has concluded with the sentencing of Jeffrey Ying, who received a year of home confinement and credit for time already served in custody. The 39-year-old, from Fremont, California, admitted to the theft of a major artwork. Ying pleaded guilty in October in Los Angeles federal court to one felony count. Restitution for the stolen items, which included a 1685 Chinese manuscript valued at nearly $16,715, will be determined at a later date. READ THE FULL STORY  

Military.com   The first camera was simply pointed the wrong way. In early April 2025, Jerry Reina, leader of a local neighborhood watch in the Harbor View area of Suffolk, Va., noticed that one of their community’s six Flock Safety cameras had been turned away from the road it was installed to monitor, according to his testimony at a preliminary hearing as reported by WAVY, a Virginia-based news outlet. A Suffolk police sergeant who helps oversee the city’s camera program soon found another aimed into a wooden line. By summer, entire poles were down. Some cameras were thrown from the Hampton Roads Parkway onto Interstate 664 below, where they shattered on the pavement, the sergeant testified. READ THE FULL STORY