{"id":23710,"date":"2026-02-20T23:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23710"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:25:22","slug":"fbi-and-las-vegas-police-investigate-suspected-case-of-terrorism-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23710","title":{"rendered":"FBI and Las Vegas police investigate suspected case of terrorism | Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 23-year-old man drove from New York to a Las Vegas<\/a> suburb and crashed a rented Nissan Sentra through a gate and into a pile of heavy wire reels at a power substation before shooting himself in the head, local police said Friday, describing the incident as a suspected act of terrorism.<\/p>\n

The suspect, Dawson Noah Maloney, died of the self-inflicted shotgun wound, Las Vegas sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a press conference Friday<\/a>. He was wearing soft body armor when police discovered him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no ongoing threat at this time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Police initially heard about the incident in Boulder City when it was reported as a suicide.<\/p>\n

Police discovered in the car two shotguns, an AR-style pistol, several magazines loaded with .223 ammunition, a box of shotgun shells, two flame-throwers, a crowbar, a hatchet and a cell phone.<\/p>\n

In Maloney\u2019s hotel room, police found material for making explosives, including thermite, ammonium nitrate, magnesium ribbon, metal pipes and gasoline. They also recovered several books \u201crelated to extremist ideologies, including right- and leftwing extremism, environmental extremism, white supremacy and anti-government ideology,\u201d McMahill said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the location and the materials discovered, this incident was treated as a terrorism-related event,\u201d McMahill said.<\/p>\n

The Albany police department had received a missing report for Maloney, McMahill said. But he also said Maloney communicated with family members just before the incident, making \u201cmultiple statements referencing self-harm\u201d and saying he would do something that would get him \u201con the news\u201d. He wrote a message to his mother describing himself as a \u201cdead terrorist son\u201d, McMahill said.<\/p>\n

The FBI is also investigating the incident. A search of two residences in the Albany area turned up gun parts and a 3D printer, according to Christopher Delzotto, the FBI\u2019s Las Vegas special agent-in-charge.<\/p>\n

The incident was first reported in the local press after McMahill mentioned it<\/a> in passing during his \u201cstate of the department\u201d address earlier on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust last night, our counter-terrorism teams were out and are still out working on an event that occurred here in our valley,\u201d McMahill said. \u201cIt looks to have been a credible counter-terrorism threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMahill cited the event when discussing his department\u2019s efforts to shore up its counter-terrorism unit.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas has experienced several terroristic threats in recent years, McMahill said. But, he added, at the Department of Homeland Security \u201cwe see a degradation of what it is that we have relied on for a long time\u201d because of the agency\u2019s \u201cfocus on more immigration-type issues\u201d.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas has also historically over-relied on New York police department\u2019s intelligence gathering and dissemination through programs like \u201cOperation Shield\u201d and \u201cOperation Sentry\u201d for counter-terrorism work, he added. \u201cWe all feel at [Las Vegas] metro that we continue to be a target and we must do something different about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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