16 JAN 26 SITREP

• The Department of Homeland Security issued hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Meta, Discord, Reddit, and other platforms to obtain identifying details for accounts that do not have a real person’s name attached.
• The subpoenas sought account details tied to activity that criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents, with the effort described as aimed at disrupting communications used to plan attacks on federal agents.
• The New York Times reviewed two subpoenas set to Meta over the last 6 months in connection with the broader DHS initiative to identify accounts linked to potential criminal conduct.
• The subpoena campaign targeted what officials described as command and control activity conducted through mainstream social media platforms that can be compelled to provide information when criminal investigations are underway.

• A SWAT operation in Pima County, Arizona, involved a bomb truck leaving the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, two SWAT vehicles, and a convoy of approximately 4 to 10 sheriff’s trucks and undercover vehicles swarming a neighborhood near Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Arizona.
• Law enforcement detained three individuals during the operation, questioned them, described them as cooperative, and released them the next day, while no public confirmation was provided regarding Nancy Guthrie’s whereabouts.
• Investigators worked with Walmart stores in the Tucson area to review surveillance footage connected to the suspect’s clothing, backpack, and gloves, seeking to determine whether the items were purchased online or in-store and whether transactions were made with cash or credit.
• Authorities recovered DNA from one glove found near the residence out of 16 gloves located around the property, identified the profile as male based on the presence of a Y chromosome, and prepared to run the DNA through the FBI’s CODIS database in Quantico, Virginia, with genetic genealogy as a secondary method if no direct match is found.

• Former Ukrainian energy minister Herman Halushchenko was detained yesterday after authorities captured him on a train at the border following allegations he attempted to flee Ukraine.
• The detention followed requests from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), with border guards reportedly holding a request to obtain information if he attempted to cross the border.
• NABU released a statement saying detectives detained the former Minister of Energy while crossing the state border as part of the “Midas” case, tied to allegations of a $100 million embezzlement scheme within the state-owned nuclear energy company Energoatom.
• Halushchenko served as energy minister under President Volodymyr Zelensky and resigned last November after NABU discovered a money-laundering scheme orchestrated by Zelensky ally Tymur Mindich, with a source describing Halushchenko as an unofficial but direct subordinate of Zelensky.