Antonio Martinez

Corrupt cop gets 12 years

2013-05-24 00:00:00

For five years, federal authorities had been chasing leads on two Chicago police officers believed to be conspiring with leaders of the Latin Kings to rob the gang's rivals of cash, drugs and guns, but they never had enough solid information to make a...

Outgoing Baltimore FBI chief talks big cases, police cooperation

2012-07-26 11:11:00

Though his tenure as the special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore field office wasn't long - just under three years - Richard A. McFeely helped oversee investigations that took out high-profile targets that had been on the radar of law enforcement...

Would-be Catonsville bomber sentenced to 25 years in prison

2012-04-06 16:18:00

Antonio Martinez renounced terrorism and expressed regret Friday for trying to blow up a Catonsville military center, shortly before he was sentenced to 25 years in prison — closing a case that brought a radical holy war to Maryland. Prosecutors...

Police: Men charged in Hampden bust planned to kill undercover officer

2012-06-15 17:38:00

The six suspects arrested in a federal sting in Hampden on Thursday planned to kill a co-conspirator in a robbery who was actually an undercover ATF agent, according to court documents. Unbeknownst to the suspects, the robbery plot was a ruse —...

U.S. war on terror focuses on new battlefield: the Internet

2012-01-14 14:41:58

A Woodlawn man watches online videos of Osama bin Laden, posts about jihad on his Facebook page, and — according to federal prosecutors — agrees to a plot to detonate a bomb at a military recruiting center in Catonsville. An Ellicott City...

Maryland man pleads guilty in terrorist bomb plot

2012-01-26 15:31:00

A Baltimore-area man will face up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with a failed terrorist plot to blow up a Catonsville military recruiting center in December 2010....

ATF sting nabs another group of would-be home invasion suspects

2012-02-06 11:00:00

They met three times at Penn Station to discuss the robbery of a cartel's drug stash house, then on Thursday, strapped with handguns, gathered at a 7-11 in Hampden for a last-minute rendezvous before carrying out the plot, according to court documents....

Howard County teen indicted on terrorism charges

2011-10-20 16:38:00

Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia unsealed an indictment Thursday charging a Howard County teenager with conspiring with a suburban Pennsylvania woman known as "Jihad Jane" to provide material support to terrorists. Mohammad Hassan Khalid, a...

Retired agent faults FBI's handling of terrorism investigation

2011-11-04 18:50:57

A retired FBI agent says the agency was too slow to investigate Antonio Martinez, who is accused of trying to blow up a military recruiting center in Maryland, and showed a "reckless disregard" for evidence collection by failing to record several meetings...

New details revealed in Catonsville terrorism investigation

2011-09-27 16:33:00

Antonio Martinez — aka Muhammad Hussein — was pretty sure he was being set up. A car bomb had been handed to him, and two volunteers he barely knew were suddenly on board with a jihadist plot to murder military personnel in Catonsville. But...

Man pleads not guilty in plot to bomb Catonsville military center

2011-01-07 14:10:00

Antonio Martinez, who is accused of masterminding a failed jihadist plot to bomb a Catonsville military center, pleaded not guilty Friday to a two-count indictment charging him with the attempted murder of federal employees and the attempted use of a...

Man charged in bomb plot appeared to drift into Islamic extremism

2010-12-09 07:57:00

Not so long ago, the young man accused of plotting to blow up a military recruiting station in Catonsville had a mundane job: selling children's clothes at Columbia Mall. When he was hired as a sales associate about a year ago, Antonio Martinez was...

Antonio Martinez a.k.a. Muhammad Hussain - images from facebook.

2010-12-08 00:00:00

or Afghanistan, Martinez instead proposed hitting local military installations to send a message. Officials say those plans culminated when he parked an SUV equipped with a dummy bomb in a suburban parking lot not far from his home.

2010-12-08 00:00:00

Antonio Martinez, aka. Dat Boi T., puts the finishing touches on a Pimp C memorial at the Screwed-Up Records-N-Tapes #4 in Houston, Texas.

2007-12-05 14:59:19