Rise of the Moors

Several members of the group arrested after an armed standoff along a Massachusetts highway earlier this month have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that state courts have no jurisdiction over the case. The suit filed by Rise of the Moors in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island last week alleges “defamation, discrimination of national origin and deprivation of their...

Officials in Rhode Island said they have issued arrest warrants for two members of the “Rise of the Moors” group who were involved in an armed standoff with police along Interstate 95 in Massachusetts earlier this month. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha and other top state safety officials announced felony charges Tuesday against 40-year-old Quinn Cumberlander. They said he…

Police bodycam footage from the armed standoff that partially shut down Interstate 95 last weekend in Massachusetts was presented in court Friday. A dangerousness hearing for six of the suspects incorporated bodycam video from a state trooper who encountered the Rise of the Moors on the highway in Wakefield Saturday. Members of the group told police they were heading from…

Two more people charged in connection with a 9-hour armed standoff that partially shut down Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, over the weekend appeared before a judge in Malden on Wednesday. “I committed no crime,” one of the unidentified men said in the courtroom. Nearly all of the 11 men who are charged say they are members of a group…

The 10 men and one teenager — who say they are members of a group called the Rise of the Moors — allegedly refused to speak with their court-appointed lawyers, delaying their arraignments.

Supporters of the men involved in the standoff this weekend in Wakefield, Massachusetts, said outside of court Tuesday that the confrontation with state police never should have gone that far. “Everyone wears military gear,” said Rise of the Moors member Leonidas Jabir Bey. “Is it illegal to wear military gear in America?” Members of the Rise of the Moors who…

The men in the Rise of the Moors group arrested in the July 4 weekend standoff on I-95 made several outbursts in court Tuesday, questioning the judge and even disputing their own names.

Investigators say the men in the standoff from the Rise of the Moors group were in military-style gear with rifles but no license to carry.

The 11 men who were arrested Saturday after an armed standoff that partially shut down Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, are due to be arraigned in Malden District Court Tuesday.

Some of the 11 people charged in connection with a 9-hour armed standoff that partially shut down Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, over the weekend refused to cooperate with court authorities during their arraignments Tuesday. The 10 men and one teenager — who say they are members of a group called the Rise of the Moors — allegedly refused to…

The father of one of Wakefield suspects is speaking out after Saturday’s police standoff.

Steven Latimer said he doesn’t get involved in his son’s beliefs. “He does talk about it,” Latimer said. “But I don’t really get into it with him as far as trying to understand it. It’s his path.” Latimer’s son is Jamal Talib Abdullah Bey, the leader of the “Rise of the Moors,” the group that was at the center...

The 11 males who were arrested Saturday following an hourslong armed standoff that partially shut down Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, will make their first court appearances on Tuesday. Police said the suspects arrested Saturday — who all claimed to be part of a group called the Rise of the Moors — are from Rhode Island, New York and Michigan….

Eleven men will stand before a judge in Malden District Court on Tuesday.

Police have identified eight of the 11 suspects who were arrested after an hours long armed standoff off Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Saturday. All of them claimed to be part of a group called the Rise of the Moors. Police safely resolved a situation with a group of heavily armed men who refused to comply with police Saturday morning,…

Police say they have safely resolved a situation with a group of heavily armed men who refused to comply with police Saturday morning, resulting in the shutdown of busy Interstate 95 and shelter-in-place orders for parts of Wakefield and Reading. The group of nine men were reportedly in two cars stopped in the breakdown lane on I-95 in Wakefield with…