Federal prosecutors arrested a man living in Lafayette who they say participated in the October 2023 attacks on Israel and later traveled to the U.S. on an illegal visa, according to newly unsealed documents obtained by the New York Times. Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, is accused of organizing other armed fighters in the Hamas-led attacks that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis …
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LAFAYETTE, La. — A man currently living and working in Lafayette made his first court appearance Friday morning after federal prosecutors accused him of taking part in the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Lafayette first obtained by ABC News and the New York Times, Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi provided, …
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A Lafayette adult died of West Nile virus in what officials say is the first such death in Colorado this year. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Boulder County Public Health confirmed the death and its cause. The press release did not specify when the person died. CDPHE has confirmed nine human cases of West Nile in …
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