Booby Traps

Two More Suspects Charged For Targeting CA Police In Connection With Booby Trapping Incidents

Jillian Rayfield | July 7, 2010, 4:43PM

A screen shot from the Hemet Police website

Two more suspects where charged today in connection with a series of booby trapping incidents over the past few months that have targeted police in Hemet, California.

Read more »

Hemet, CA

Was CA Fire Another Attack Targeted At Local Police?

Jillian Rayfield | June 28, 2010, 4:26PM

A screen shot from the Hemet Police website

The police department in Hemet, California, says that a fire today at an evidence storage building may be the seventh attempted attack in a six-month string of incidents targeting the local police.

Read more »

California

Rocket Found Pointed At CA Police Dept. That Was Target Of White Supremacists

Justin Elliott | June 10, 2010, 6:07PM

A screen shot from the Hemet Police website

Something is rotten in Hemet, California.

In May TPMmuckraker highlighted the alarming string of booby traps targeting the Southern California city's police department. Local white supremacists were thought to be behind the traps.

Now, the Southwest Riverside News Network reports, a nine-pound vintage military rocket round was found on the roof of a a downtown Hemet building -- and it was apparently pointed at the nearby police headquarters. Officers found the inert round when responding to a fire -- the cause of which is not known:

Read more »