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After the blackout, Adif has a serious problem on its ways: three “lost” trains in remote states of the network

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Although electric service has begun to recover, almost medium Spain continues in the dark and the sequelae of the blackout remain palpable. In the field of transport, 35,000 passengers trapped were rescued by Renfe, Adif and the Military Emergency Unit (UME). However, there are still three trains to recover. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, He explained that these units are in areas especially difficult to access. Rescue equipment deployed throughout the morning. Since the supply cut occurred on Monday after 12:30, ADIF, Renfe rescue teams and the UME work continuously to recover trapped trains in different parts of the rail network. The difficulty does not reside solely in the lack of electricity, but that some convoys were isolated in difficult access areas, which complicates rescue maneuvers. Adif had already warned That the average and long distance services would not operate throughout the day, regardless of the evolution of the supply, and the suspension also extended to the nearby and rhodalies lines. A clear objective: to recover rail mobility. The government has stressed that one of the priority objectives is to restore the trains circulation as soon as possible, starting with the nearby lines. Pedro Sánchez has pointed out that the objective is to restore mobility in vicinity as soon as possible and also in average and long distance throughout Tuesday, the media and long distance services can also be resumed, although he has clarified that the recovery will ultimately depend on how the electric supply evolves. In parallel, the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, has pointed out That the tension is beginning to stabilize in some areas of the rail network, allowing several trains to resume their march. At the Atocha station, in Madrid, the arrival of at least seven trains that were detained is expected. Click to see the original message in x Open stations as improvised shelters. To mitigate the impact on travelers, Adif has enabled several of its main stations as places of night shelter. Stations such as Atocha, Chamartín, Sants, Valencia, Bilbao, Sevilla, Córdoba, Zaragoza, Valladolid and Malaga will remain open during the night so that those affected can be protected. Besides, The UME has deployed Mantas and basic resources to serve passengers who have been forced to spend the night in the stations. The origin of the blackout, still under investigation. While the recovery work advances, the cause of the blackout remains a source of research. The Government has explained that it occurred The sudden loss of 15 GW of electricity generationa phenomenon that has no precedents in the Spanish energy system. At the moment, no hypothesis about what happened is ruled out. Images | Renfe In Xataka | The fact that illustrates the magnitude that Spain has lived with the blackout: 60% less demand in five seconds

The precedent closest to the great blackout of Spain was lived in 2003. And it also began in the interconnected network

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Few events show our electricity dependence as a mass blackout. And few blackouts have been as extensive as the one that has affected all of Spain today. But there is a precedent of similar characteristics that still remember in neighboring Italy: the great blackout of 2003. The day Italy was dark. On September 28, 2003, practically all the Italians (57 million people) were left without light. The ruling began in the Swiss Alps, demonstrating, as has happened today, the fragility of interconnected networks. It all started at 3:01 in the morning in a high voltage line that crosses the passage of Lukmanier, between Switzerland and Italy. A storm whipped the area. According to subsequent investigations, the branch of a tree hit the wiring, causing a short circuit and its automatic disconnection. It all started with a tree. The fall of a tree should not have been catastrophic. Electrical networks are designed with redundancies to avoid it. However, the demand for energy in Italy at that time was high, and the country depended significantly on the imports of electricity in Switzerland and France. The loss of the Lukmanier line increased the load on the other interconnections. In less than half an hour, a second crucial line, that of the Paso de San Bernardino, also failed. The exact reasons were subject to dispute (Switzerland said there were overloads not communicated by Italy, Italy blamed Swiss management), but the result was overwhelming: Italy lost suddenly a huge capacity to import energy and went out. The domino effect. At 3:27 am, the country remained dark. The almost simultaneous loss of these two great energy arteries had been too much for the Italian network. The frequency of the network began to fall dangerously below 50 Hz, and automatic protection systems, designed to avoid higher damage to generators and equipment, began acting in cascade. Electric centrals throughout Italy began to automatically disconnect from the network to protect themselves. This self -defense mechanism, however, aggravated the problem: the more centrals they disconnected, the greater the imbalance between the remaining little generation and demand, accelerating the collapse. In a matter of minutes, the Italian electricity grid was completely fragmented and collapsed. The blackout affected the entire Italian Peninsula, from the Alps to Sicily. The exception? The Island of Sardinia, which has an independent power grid and not connected to the continental system (as the Canary Islands here), as well as some small border areas that received a direct supply of neighboring countries. The biggest blackout in the history of Italy. The blackout surprised Italy in the early morning of Sunday. Although this mitigated the initial chaos compared to the blackout of Spain (fewer people in public transport, in factories, locked in elevators), the impact was deep and durable throughout the day. Thousands of passengers were also trapped in trains in the middle of nowhere. Hospitals and emergency services activated their diesel generators, but the situation tested their abilities. The meters of cities like Rome and Milan stopped working. The traffic lights went out, complicating traffic. Although many mobile phone antennas had batteries, overload affected communications in some areas. In Rome, the blackout coincided with the “Notte Bianca”, the annual night in which museums open, there are concerts and night activities. Everything was interrupted, plunging thousands of citizens in unexpected darkness. The lack of electricity lasted for hours. A delicate recovery. Restore the electricity supply after a total collapse (the now famous start From energy zero) It is not as simple as pressing a switch. Italy showed that it is a slow, complex and gradual process. Many of the large thermal plants needed external energy to start their own auxiliary systems. As the centrals generate energy again, they have to synchronize perfectly in frequency and voltage with the incipient network. An error can cause new disconnections. Demand must gradually reintroduce as the generation increases. Connect too fast load can overload the newly restored network and cause another collapse. It is a delicate dance between supply and demand. Between four and 18 hours. For these reasons, the recovery was unequal. The regions of northern Italy, closer to European interconnections and with greater capacity for their own generation, began to recover electricity in about 3-4 hours. However, the center and south, especially Sicily, took much more. Some areas remained without electricity for 18 hours or more. Finally, electricity was restored block to block, city to city, in a process that extended during almost all of Sunday. The Italian blackout of 2003 remains a case study on the complexity and fragility of our energy infrastructure. A reminder that small events like a fallen tree can turn off a whole country. Image | Victor Romero (Flickr, CC BY-C-SA 2.0) In Xataka | What is the “energy zero” and why the supply can go suddenly but it takes hours to recover

Strava has bought Runna. The Sports Social Network now has a fantastic application with training plans

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Strava, the social network of athletes par excellence with more than 150 million users, has announced the acquisition of Runnaa popular British application of training plans for runners launched in 2021. Why is it important. This purchase resolves one of Strava’s great ‘ This was a weak point for both beginners and veterans, who had to resort to other platforms. This movement is not only a strategic purchase, but a direct response to the world boom of the Running. In 2024 almost one billion races were registered in Strava, and according to Your datathe race on foot is the sport that grows the fastest global, with the Z generation leading this trend. What does Runna do. The Runna app, which I tried for months, asks for concrete objectives (finish a 10K, finish a marathon, run average marathon in less than 1:40 h, etc.) I already change both specific and adapted training plans, as a live guide of each plan. That is, if we start a training with Runna (present at Apple Watch or Garmin), we will guide us on our clock and also in our headphones on each part of the training, it will notify us if we are going too slow or too fast, of each change of rhythm that we have to do, etc. And now what. In the short term, both applications will continue to function independently, according to They have confirmed the CEO and co -founder of Strava and Runna respectively. Presumably, the first changes and integrations will arrive in the coming months. As a backdrop, two clear elements: The growing importance of Strava’s premium subscription (8 euros per month) with which to access a series of somewhat secondary functions. Limiting training plans to this subscription will make it much more attractive. Runna’s are 20 euros per month. Other recent purchases from Strava: Recover Athleticsan injury prevention application; and Fatmapa 3D maps platform. The expansion strategy in different areas of the digital fitness is evident. The big question. How are subscriptions going to now manage? If we look at the annual plans, Strava Premium costs $ 80 a year for the 120 that Runna costs. At the moment, users will need to maintain both subscriptions if they want to have access to “everything.” Runna uses Strava’s third parties to synchronize activities. It is expected that a better integration arrives. Michael Martin, CEO of Strava, has compared this purchase with that of Recover Athletics, which works separately but is free for Strava subscribers. Deepen. These types of purchases usually generate reactions found. In 2023, Strava had a confusing and controversial change in its subscription price And a few weeks ago that Garmin announced his subscription plan With a rather warm answer. Clearly Strava wants to be more than “the social network of sport” to offer more value directly to the athlete, and not just a social meeting point around training. In Xataka | After almost a decade with the Apple Watch I have spent a Garmin. And I have understood what I was losing me Outstanding image | Strava

Openai’s hypothetical social network does not want to connect people. Want your data to train your AI

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In Openai they do not conform to being absolute referents in the segment of artificial intelligence. The last rumors point to that They intend to create a social network that would go beyond Chatgpt. The reason, eye, is not to compete with Facebook, Instagram or X. At least, not directly. Social network = data to feed the AIThe movement responds without a doubt to that voracious hunger of new data that the AI ​​models have and that allows them to improve and polish their behavior in different scenarios. A social network would allow Openai to use all those data entered by users to train their models. X already discovered that trend. The Fusion between X and XAI It was already a clear demonstration of that strategy: suddenly I had a perfect system to train its AI, Grok model, with all the posts of X users. And goal, of course, too. Goal takes time doing the same With Facebook and Instagram – although The EU forced her to slightly change your plans – and also collect data when we use ai target at whatsapp, Although you can avoid it. All with the same goal: to have “fresh food” for its artificial intelligence models. A social network to share images. Apparently the prototype that is already developed focuses on Chatgpt’s ability to generate images. It would therefore be a social network more similar to an instagram full of images generated by AI, from which we imagine that users would be generated. Altman already warned. The funny thing is that the rumor occurs weeks after Sam Altman himself, CEO of OpenAi, jokes with that possibility. When the news appeared that Meta was preparing an independent app for goal AI, Altman replied saying “ok, perfect, perhaps we make a social app.” This does not connect people. Perhaps they already had the project and it was not a joke, but although Altman pointed out that that could allow “revenge” of Facebook, the intentions would not be those of competing with Facebook when connecting people – the original purpose of that social network, at least – but that of collecting more and more data for their AI, which is what they have also ended up doing social networks. And the AGI for when. The problem of this theoretical project is that it would be partly a distraction for Openai. It would certainly allow for more data for the training of its AI models, but it is not clear that the scaling is the right path for the ultimate end of OpenAi: get a general artificial intelligence or agi. Too many parallel projects. Altman is famous for generate excessive expectations about the AGI. However, this challenge is tarnished by their last releases, especially in the case of GPT-4.5. The company seems to be somewhat scattered with gigantic projects like Stargatethe development of Your own chips o The mysterious hardware project In collaboration with Jony Ive. Too many apples in the basket? We will see. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | Chatgpt is already the most downloaded app in the world. His only problem is that he does not know how to make money with it

Vodafone displays the largest public Wi -Fi network in Spain connecting all Andalusia. Even the Alhambra

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Vodafone and the Junta de Andalucía have announced in the MWC 2025 – and among mutual praise – the implementation of the largest public Wi -Fi network in Spain, connecting 3,100 administrative venues in 700 Andalusian municipalities. The Vuela Plan offers free Internet access for 8 million citizens and public employees through an infrastructure that has required 27,000 access points and 800 km wiring. Why it is important. The network guarantees universal Internet access throughout Andalusia, in view of “overcoming the digital divide” and modernizing public administration. The infrastructure allows any Andalusian to connect to the Internet for free to any of the administrative venues, from small municipalities to hospitals, through historical buildings such as The Alhambrawhere the installation works were extended for almost a year to respect their patrimonial value, according to the announcement of the Teleco. In figures. The project has meant a massive technological deployment that we do not remember precedents in the Spanish public administration. 27,000 Wi -Fi access points. 4,500 concentrators installed. 800 kilometers of wiring. 700 connected municipalities. 82 Coordinated organizations in the deployment. In detail. The plan flies, announced by Antonio SanzDirector of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification of the Junta de Andalucía, Structure connectivity in three different networks that fulfill specific functions according to the type of user. The Vuela network offers public access with safe authentication for citizens. The corporate network connects public employees in the 5,500 headquarters allowing mobility between buildings. The third is dedicated to IoT devices to manage sensors, hospital equipment and asset location. During the presentation, the counselor has talked about increasing the utility for the citizen and “being more agile”, coming to talk about the ability to attract Digital nomads. “No one is left behind.” Between bambalins. The deployment has had to overcome several technical and logistics challenges to respect the characteristics of each space. It has been necessary to adapt the installation to hospitals with strict protocols, remote municipalities or protected historical buildings. The network has a dedicated core that guarantees professional benefits, similar to those of any commercial operator. And now what? The network solves the poor connectivity that affected many administrative buildings, as stated during the presentation, and responds to the demand for a Wi -Fi network. Now citizens will have internet in health centers, libraries and public offices where there was not before. O It was limited to the cable for employees. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | European telecos in front of their existential battle: “If our hands unleashed, we will score goals”

The United States is beginning to dismantle the load network for electric cars, according to leaks

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Donald Trump had a clear objective on his arrival at the White House: dismantling how many Biden administration policies could. Within what the former executive fostered, there were measures to accelerate the decarbonization through the commitment to renewable energies and the electric cars. After a movement that put the legs up the US aspirations with the electric carThe Verge and CPR News claim that one more step will be taken soon: to dismantle thousands of electric car loading points Throughout the country, in addition to removing electric cars bought by the Biden government. Federal buildings without plug. The Colorado Public Radio It was the first means to echo this. They claim to have access to an internal email and several sources that point to the administration of general services, or GSA, is working to align with the current administration. And that implies closing load stations. The GSA is responsible for administering buildings that are owned by the federal government, a task that performs throughout the country. According to an email you have seen The Vergethe GSA plans to announce the gradual closure of the loaders network at some point in last week. Some offices would have already begun to pull the plug and in others, in which there are contracts with the network suppliers, the loaders will be disabled once these contracts expire. To the clean point. When this happens, neither the vehicles owned by the government nor the individuals of the workers can load at those points. During the Biden mandate, the GSA was responsible for implementing a presidential plan to gradually eliminate the use of gas propelled vehicles. The idea It was that, of the 650,000 vehicles that the federal government has, more than half were replaced by electric. That is why recharge points began to be installed in federal buildings, but with the new plan in progress and the intention of not going to electric cars, those chargers would now not make sense. According to The entity itself, in March 2024, more than 58,000 electric vehicles had been commissioned and, to the 8,000 recharge points in government buildings, another 25,000 would be added soon. Before and after Trump “They are not critical for the mission”. There was a map that showed in real time the location and status of these load points, but the only way to Consult it It is via Wayback Machine, since that section of the web was deleted a few days ago. According to the sources of The Verge and CPR, the electric vehicles they already had will stop using, but it is not clear if they will be sold or stored. And the message issued by the GSA in the filtered communications could not be clearer: “We have received instructions that all the load stations owned by the GSA are not critical for the mission.” Does not a puppet with a head. In Wired they echoed plan of the GSA to sell approximately 500 buildings as part of the efforts of the Trump government for “Clean” public administrationsomething that is also aligned with the Doge department leading Elon Musk. The most striking of all this is that the GSA and the Government not only will not go to the electric car, but to dismantle points that prevent the workers of those buildings from carrying their particular electric cars while they are in their job. Images | Gage Skidmore, Mariordo In Xataka | Tesla had a contract of 400 million dollars from the United States government. They have had to reculate

There is a cosmic network of “roads” formed by gas and dark matter filaments. We have just captured it from Chile

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We know well that matter is not distributed in a form of all homogeneous throughout the observable universe. The galaxies like the one we live are great clusters of matter in which the stars are born and died, and with them other objects such as planets and asteroids. However, that is only part of the story. In sight. A group of researchers has achieved Capture directly and in “high definition” an image of the so -called cosmic network, a network of gas filaments that extend throughout millions of light years in the intergalactic space. He has done it from the VLT, the large telescope that the Southern European Observatory has installed in Chile. A cosmic network. The subject in the universe is not only concentrated in the galaxies. Moreover, the subject distributed in intergalactic space plays a fundamental role in the structure of our cosmos. Physical interactions lead to this matter to be distributed in an interesting way. He does it In immense filamentsgas clouds that form an immense network that connects the galaxies around it. The gas that accumulates in this network of “cosmic highways” is the one that feeds the stars of the bright galaxies located at the intersections of this network. Huge, and almost invisible. In addition to the gas that feeds the stars, dark matter also plays an important role in the structuring of this network as indicated by the team responsible for this new image. Observing this dark matter is impossible today, but capturing the gas columns that accompany it, the “star fuel”, is possible. Hundreds of hours. Overcome this difficulty Requires dedicationeven for our most powerful telescopes. That is why capturing this image required hundreds of hours of observation by the VLT (Vary Large Telescope), The telescope of the European Observatory (ESO) installed in the Atacama desert, in Chile. The team resorted to the Muse instrument (Multi–Unit Spectroscopic Explorer), An advanced spectrograph installed in the Chilean telescope. The details of the process were published In an article In the magazine Nature Astronomy. In the image, in color, the diffuse gas that extends around and between the remarked galaxies can be seen. Davide Tornotti/University of Milano-Bicocca. Three million light years. The team used ultraprecisous data compiled by the telescope to create the most clear image ever achieved by one of the filaments that make up the cosmic network. The filament in question extends over three million light years and Connect two distant galaxieseach of them with its own supermassive black hole. “By capturing the dim light emitted by this filament, which has traveled for just under 12,000 million years to reach the Earth, we are able to accurately characterize its form,” Explain in a press release Davide Tornotti, co -author of the study. The team also highlights that the accuracy of the new data has allowed “Draw the border” between the gas of the galaxies themselves and all the subject that we associate with this cosmic web. And all through direct measurements. Validate the theory. In his study, the team used these direct observations to test the theoretical cosmological models. And with a positive result: “When comparing it to the new high definition image, we find a substantial agreement between theory and observations,” Tornotti indicated. Even so, the team also points out that they will continue working on the study of these structures. “One is none,” that is, with the image of one of these elements, it is not enough to draw generalizable conclusions about these key structures for our cosmos but as unknown as the filaments that make up the cosmic network. In Xataka | Is our Milky Way a zombie galaxy and we without knowing it? Image | Alejandro Benitez-Llambay/University of Milano-Bicocca/MPa/Davide Tornotti/University of Milano-Bicocca

The fascinating network of “Arab Cuevas”

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Brihuega is the name of a municipality in Guadalajara that may not tell you anything. But it may sound to you if I tell you that it is the ‘Spanish lavender capital‘. This town of the Alcarriaof just 2,800 inhabitants, multiply its population during July thanks to Lavender festival. But under the surface of Brihuega There is more, much more: Almost eight kilometers of tunnels that make up the largest underground labyrinth in Spain. Arab Caves. The caves, tunnels or galleries always have a fascinating point. They are natural or excavated by humans, imagine the stories that occurred among its narrow walls always have a point of attractiveness. Visit a mine, How can Almadén’sIt is always interesting … and a business. Capadocia with its secret citiesAnd tunnels knows it well, but it turns out that you don’t have to go to Türkiye to see something similar. Between the 10th and XI centuries, in the municipality of Brihuega, the inhabitants They built An intricate tunnel system. It is a complex maze of about eight kilometers in total that travel practically the entire subsoil of the town, as well as parts that give abroad. And, although they are called ‘Arab caves’, the symbology found in the galleries is not Mudejar. War and peace. As in this type of structures, they are naturally protected from inclement and a constant temperature of about 12 degrees Celsius throughout the year is maintained. This allows, traditionally, galleries have been used as a food warehouse. In some parts of the tour, in fact, you can see great jars that would have been used to store food or drink, each with the potter’s label that built them. However, they have not only used in peace times, and they will probably be initially built as an escape and refuge. Brihuega was a Strategic point In the face of toledo by Christians in the reconquest, and what allowed the tunnels was that, in times of siege, the population could escape outside the perimeter of the walls. Brihuega also witnessed a homonymous battle in December 1710, during the Spanish Succession War. Civil war. Let’s say that, in any conflict of this type, the population has an insured escape and refuge, and it is something that they also took advantage of during the civil war. During the conflict, one of the battles was to Guadalajara. In March 1937, the nationalist troops, with the support of Italian forces and tanks, tried to penetrate Madrid through the north. In a Televisilla-La Mancha television report, it is noted that there are parts near the breathing rooms that have soot on the roofs. They are the points where the population, taking refuge from the siege of the Italian troops, lit fires to cook and heat. Tourist interest. Currently, Brihuega caves are the memory that the history of some cities is not only on the surface, but unfortunately you cannot travel the eight kilometers of galleries. They have only enabled about 700 meters for visits subject to schedule and payment of three euros per person. The tour lasts a little less than half an hour and it is always interesting to visit these sites … unless you have claustrophobia. Images | Millars and Benjamín Núñez González In Xataka | “Look dad, ox”: the curious story of how an eight -year -old girl unwittingly discovered the paintings of the Altamira cave

In ‘Farmtok’, agriculture takes the spotlight. What will happen if TikTok disappears?

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BUCYRUS, Ohio, USA — Zoe Kent hopes people will lighten up a little to hear her talk about farming on the internet. In one of his latest videos, he compares pesticide application to dry shampoo. “Farming is for girls,” he jokes. On Instagram and TikTok, under the username “farmwithzoe,” Kent films herself putting on boots to load corn into the bed of a huge truck, posts memes about the price of grain, and documents almost everything about life on the farm, from how He gets rocks stuck in his equipment until he eats lunch on long days working on a combine. Now, the future of TikTok — and “Farmtok,” as some creators call the agriculture-related influencer ecosystem — has become more uncertain due to a ban the U.S. government briefly implemented on TikTok over the weekend. The new Trump administration rescinded that ban, at least for now, but farmers are keenly aware that things could change, and with them, the ways they share farm life with the rest of the world. But most say they will continue to adapt to what the platforms throw at them. “It’s like building your business on rented land,” Kent said. “It’s not guaranteed to stay there.” Even before the uncertain threat to TikTok’s future, agricultural creators had to deal with the evolution of social media. As algorithms changed, they faced greater challenges communicating with an audience many see as increasingly disconnected from agriculture. But most say they will continue to adapt to what the platforms throw at them. Some producers make extra money by building an audience on TikTok or Instagram. Others use social media to advertise to local customers, such as restaurants or farmers markets. Perhaps most importantly, they want to continue building community with other farmers in the face of industry challenges such as the profession’s impact on mental health, economic pressure and climate change. Several farmers said the disconnect has grown over the years as social media algorithms have changed. “I know for a fact that our social media reach is way down now,” said Beth Satterwhite, who has been posting on Instagram about her small organic vegetable farm in McMinnville, Oregon, for more than a decade. “The stories of people working in agriculture are a little less interesting for the consumer, I don’t know if it’s really less interesting or just less visible,” he said. Neil Denton, who grows corn, soybeans, wheat and rye in Barlow, Kentucky, shared a similar sentiment. Consider that many of his more than 80,000 followers on Instagram and 33,000 on TikTok are other producers, not members of the public. He finds that “disappointing” and worries about how much people know about the food that ends up on their plates. But he thinks there’s a silver lining: “Farming is a lonely occupation because you’re not around a lot of co-workers,” Denton said. “I think some farmers use social media as an outlet… to be able to express yourself and feel like you’re not alone.” Within the farming community, it can also be helpful to learn from other farmers, many producers said. Megan Dwyer, who grows corn and soybeans and raises beef cattle in northwest Illinois, uses social media, especially X and Facebook, to gauge what’s important to other farmers. “It’s a great source of information, especially quick information,” he said. However, all that quick information comes at a price. Satterwhite described a “soup of language” around agriculture, saying it could be difficult for an outsider to say which agricultural practices are legitimately better for the climate or the environment. “I see a lot of greenwashing,” Satterwhite said, referring to the practice of falsely portraying a product or practice as green in order to market it to an environmentally conscious public. “There is definitely a lot of misinformation out there,” Kent added. “I try to filter out who has genuine questions versus who already has a stance and isn’t willing to listen to me.” That’s something many ag influencers agree on: that they still want a place to have a conversation. As Dwyer said, “You never know who you are influencing there or what can happen.”

Leader of arms trafficking network between the US and the Caribbean is charged and could face 20 years in prison

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United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the indictment against Shem Wayne Alexander, 35, of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; and faces charges of conspiracy to commit illegal export smuggling and conspiracy to traffic firearms. Alexander was arrested in Jamaica on November 15, 2024, with a request for provisional arrest from the United States with a view to his extradition, which was fulfilled on December 20. According to authorities, Alexander was the leader of a group that illegally exported firearms, firearm components and related items from Florida to Trinidad and Tobago between 2019 and 2022. The firearms, including pistols and rifles, and related equipment were concealed within boxing and wrestling equipment, speakers and other household items to avoid detection by law enforcement and customs authorities. The criminal group led by Alexander also participated in phantom firearms purchases in Tampa by misrepresenting the identities of buyers and recipients. Even on April 7, 2021, Alexander ordered his associates to send a package containing several firearms from Miami to Trinidad and Tobago. This shipment included pistols such as the 9mm Taurus G2C and Ruger Security-9 models. Authorities intercepted these items at Piarco International Airport on April 22, 2021. The investigation was led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), with support from several agencies, including the Police Service’s Transnational Organized Crime Unit of Trinidad and Tobago. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in federal prison. Keep reading:. Wisconsin woman found guilty of poisoning friend with eye drops. Wisconsin woman poisoned her husband’s coffee with animal euthanasia drugs. Woman arrested in North Dakota who poisoned her boyfriend to death

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