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- C ALIFORNIA S TATE T HREAT A SSESSMENT C ENTER
- 96-H OUR R EPORT
- 5 S EPTEMBER 2017
- (U) CALIFORNIA
- (U) San Diego – Fugitive Task Force Arrests 50 Across San Diego County
- (U) A fugitive task force arrested 50 criminals across San Diego County last week during a four-day
- operation that targeted people suspected of violating the terms of their parole. Members of the US
- Marshals task force tracked down people convicted of violent crimes including assault, robbery and
- attempted murder. The arrests took place all throughout the county, from Oceanside to Imperial Beach
- and El Cajon. There were 32 parolees, 16 fugitives with state arrest warrants, and two fugitives with
- federal arrest warrants taken into custody.
- SOURCE: 1 September 2017, San Diego Union Tribune
- (U) NATIONAL
- (U) Illinois – Villa Park Man Charged with Fundraising for ISIS Fighters
- (U) Chicago – A 31-year-old truck driver living in west suburban Villa Park was arrested by the FBI on 31
- August on charges out of New York that alleged he raised money in 2015 to help send fighters from the
- United States to ISIS fronts in Syria. At a hearing in federal court in Chicago, prosecutors asked that
- Dilshod Khusanov, a native of Uzbekistan, be detained as a flight risk and danger to the community. He
- will be taken to Brooklyn to face the two-count indictment charging him with conspiring and attempting
- to provide material support to ISIS and al-Nusrah Front.
- SOURCE: 1 September 2017, Chicago Tribune
- (U) New York – New York Police Department Captures Radical Cleric Operating Overseas
- (U) New York – A once-imprisoned Islamic cleric is behind bars again after an unusual investigation that
- took New York City police officers far beyond their jurisdiction, to the Middle East, to make contact with
- a member of ISIS. The international sting that led to the arrest of Abdullah el-Faisal in Jamaica last week
- was conducted by the New York Police Department (NYPD) without the involvement of the FBI or
- federal prosecutors. An indictment filed in state court in Manhattan said an undercover NYPD officer
- posing as a jihadist connected on social media with el-Faisal, who is accused of trying to recruit the
- officer to become a medic for ISIS.
- SOURCE: 1 September 2017, Associated Press
- (U) North Dakota – West Fargo Police Make Record Drug Seizure
- (U) West Fargo – A California man was arrested in West Fargo after police say they found a record
- amount of drugs in his trunk during a traffic stop. Police pulled the suspect’s vehicle over on I-94 for a
- routine traffic violation on 3 September. During a search of the vehicle, police found 125 pounds of raw
- marijuana, 2,811 grams of marijuana wax, 168.63 grams of hashish, and two vials of marijuana oil. The
- street value of the drugs was estimated to be more than $700,000.
- SOURCE: 4 September 2017, Valley News Live
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- (U) INTERNATIONAL
- (U) Japan – North Korea Detonates its Most Powerful Nuclear Device Yet
- (U) Tokyo – North Korea detonated a nuclear device on 3 September, claiming it was a hydrogen bomb
- that could be attached to a missile capable of reaching the mainland United States. Scientific evidence
- showed that North Korea crossed an important threshold after detonating a nuclear device that was
- vastly more powerful than its last—and almost seven times the size of the bomb that destroyed
- Hiroshima. This was the first nuclear test conducted by North Korea since President Trump took office.
- SOURCE: 3 September 2017, Washington Post
- (U) Philippines – Philippines Eyes Counter-Terrorism Task Force with Malaysia, Indonesia
- (U) Manila – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will discuss with Indonesia and Malaysia the possibility
- of creating a task force to combat ISIS-inspired militancy. Duterte also expressed willingness to open his
- borders to Indonesian and Malaysian security forces searching for ISIS fighters. He plans to meet with
- Indonesian president Joko Widodo and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to discuss the potential
- task force. Southeast Asian nations have agreed to use spy planes and drones to stem the movement of
- militants across their borders, as concerns rise over the growing clout of ISIS in the region.
- SOURCE: 3 September 2017, Reuters
- (U) Philippines – Philippines’ Battle Against ISIS Continues
- (U) Marawi – The battle between Philippine forces and ISIS has now surpassed the 100-day mark since
- ISIS militants seized the southern city of Marawi. Journalists were allowed in for the first time by the
- Philippine military, witnessing the destruction in the region from the numerous airstrikes and artillery
- barrages. On 31 August, three soldiers were killed, and 52 more were injured in the latest incident.
- Marawi and the surrounding areas, on the southern island of Mindanao, was once home to 200,000
- people, the biggest Muslim-majority city in the Philippines. It is now relatively vacant but for a dwindling
- group of militants who claim loyalty to ISIS.
- SOURCE: 1 September 2017, New York Times
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