
California Man Who Was Arrested In Tunisia While Trying To Join ISIS Is Convicted, Tells Jury He’d Do It Again
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Earlier today, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Bernard Raymond Augustine, a U.S. citizen and California resident, of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State. The verdict followed a one-week trial before United States District Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr. When sentenced, Augustine faces up to 20 years in prison.
Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Mark J. Lesko, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Dermot F. Shea, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD), announced the verdict.
“The defendant’s unvarnished testimony at trial demonstrates his ongoing support for ISIS and its glorification of barbaric acts of terrorism, including attacks on U.S. soldiers, the enslavement of Yazidi women and mass killings, which he described as ‘cool,’” stated Acting U.S. Attorney Kasulis. “Today’s guilty verdict underscores the strong commitment of this Office and its law enforcement partners to combatting terrorism and protecting the United States from potentially dangerous threats to its national security.”
The evidence at trial established that in February 2016, the defendant traveled from San Francisco, California to Northern Africa, with the goal of joining ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. In the months leading up to his travel, the defendant watched ISIS propaganda, including videos glorifying ISIS’s violence, such as “The Flames of War.” The defendant conducted internet searches for, among other things, “how to safely join ISIS,” and reviewed websites related to ISIS recruitment practices, including one titled “How does a Westerner join ISIS? Is there a recruitment or application process?”
Augustine also posted numerous statements in support of ISIS and violent extremism on the internet. He posted statements such as “the Islamic State is the true Islam,” “Muslims who leave the west . . . answer the call for the struggle, and march until they are victorious or martyred are the true believers,” and the ISIS caliphate “can’t be established and maintained except through the blood of the mujahideen who practice the true belief.”
Augustine then purchased a one-way airplane ticket and traveled to Tunisia so that he could present himself as a willing participant in ISIS’s terrorist activity. After arriving in Tunisia, Augustine was detained by local authorities before he could make it to ISIS-controlled territory across the border in Libya. He was subsequently returned to the United States in 2018, where he was brought to the Eastern District of New York for prosecution.
Augustine represented himself at trial with the assistance of standby counsel. The defendant took the witness stand in his own defense and his testimony included the following statements:
“I just want to tell the jury that I do not regret my decision, I’m proud of my decision and if I could go back and start over I would do it again, and if I became a free man tomorrow I would do it again, I would leave and I would do that again. I have no regrets about it and I’m proud of it. And I believe that all Muslims must immigrate to the Islamic State upon its establishment, especially ones living in the west.”
Augustine testified that he was aware that Islamic State fighters slaughtered members of the Yazidi ethnic group, and that he understood that the Islamic State enslaved Yazidi women.
Augustine described the Islamic State propaganda film “Flames of War,” which he acknowledged contains mass killings, as “a really cool video. You should watch the whole thing.”
Augustine testified that Islamic State propaganda showing holy warriors fighting and engaging in martyrdom and suicide bombings was “cool” and “hell, yeah, it was cool.”
Crime
1 Person Dies, 22 Hospitalized As Listeria Outbreak Spreads To Ten States

A Listeria outbreak has now infected 23 people throughout in 10 various states. One person from Illinois has died as a result. All but one of the individuals had to be hospitalized, states the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency reported that Listeria is a sickness that usually affects pregnant women, newborns, other adults, and people with weakened immune systems. It is unusual for those who aren’t in one of these groups to get the illness. To add, antibiotics are used if a person is infected.
Symptoms are different, depending on the person and where they have been affected in their body. A small percentage of cases can lead to a fever or diarrhea.
For those with severe cases, they may experience invasive listeriosis which means bacteria extends pass the gut. If a woman is pregnant, she may experience muscle aches and fatigue. Headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions are also symptoms.
Although it usually doesn’t cause major symptoms in pregnant women, Listeria can cause fetuses and newborn babies to become very sick. It can result in miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection in a newborn.
During the recent outbreak, five pregnant women became ill and suffered a miscarriage.
For people who are 65 or older, they could develop an infection in the bloodstream or brain. They may also experience problems with their joints, bones, chest, and abdomen.
Listeria outbreaks are almost always related to food contamination products. The CDC hasn’t validated where the outbreak started. However, almost all of the people who had gotten sick reside in or had gone to Florida about a month prior to becoming ill. It’s uncertain if that is a coincidence.
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1 Person Dies, 22 Hospitalized As Listeria Outbreak Spreads To Ten States
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Rowlett Man Pleads Guilty To Stalking And Killing His Former Girlfriend

35-year-old Andrew Charles Beard, from Rowlett, Texas, cyberstalked, shot, and fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend. It occurred as the two were going through a custody battle.
Last week, Beard pleaded guilty to two violent federal crimes. He had been charged with cyberstalking using a dangerous weapon resulting in death and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
Beard will receive his punishment on October 6 and could receive two life sentences.
Authorities say that he admitted to stalking and killing his ex-girlfriend, Alyssa Burkett, 24. It happened in a parking lot in Carrollton on October 2, 2020. Beard wanted to have custody of the couple’s daughter who was a 1-year-old at the time.
Beard confessed to placing a GPS tracker inside of Burkett’s vehicle. He then trailed her to her apartment where he shot her in the head.
Burkett was able to get to a parking lot that was nearby. However, Beard found her and stabbed her 13 times.
Burkett’s mother and colleagues informed authorities that she had been scared of Beard. She was worried that he had been following her and felt like he may kill her. Burkett’s boyfriend added that Beard seemed to be “overly obsessed” with Burkett and their daughter.
“This was a brutal, bloody crime. Ms. Burkett’s daughter is now suffering twin tragedies. Her mother is deceased, and her father is an admitted murderer. We pray for strength for this child and the rest of her family…” said U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham.
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Rowlett Man Pleads Guilty To Stalking And Killing His Former Girlfriend
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Texas Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Sexually Assaulting Horses

Jean Marie Bugoma, a 24-year-old man from Texas, confessed to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting many others. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
On Wednesday, he was convicted after pleading guilty to bestiality.
The incidents occurred between June 2020 and February 2021. They happened at a San Antonio equine boarding facility, three different times.
Arrest documents note that Bugoma was seen on a recording, in the first instance, strolling through the stables, naked.
Not long after that, the owner saw that two of his horses were hurt. A vet later stated that the horses had been sexually assaulted.
Months after that, Bugoma went back to the stables and had sex with one of the horses. Two other horses were discovered with their legs bound together.
In February of last year, the owner caught Bugoma who had returned to the stables again. Authorities got a warrant and DNA from one of the horses matched that of the suspect.
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Texas Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Sexually Assaulting Horses
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