Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Ministry of Justice would request a 20 -year prison sentence for a man accused of launching a fire bomb from a Tesla dealership.
Bondi said on Monday that Cooper Jo Frederick, who is accused of having attacked a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado on March 7, would face federal accusations.
“I said: if you participate in the wave of domestic terrorism against the properties of Tesla, we will find you, stop you and put you behind bars,” said Bondi in a video press release published on X.
Tesla’s facilities are faced with attacks, vandalism and manifestations in a reaction from the political interventions of the CEO Elon Musk, in particular by defending the Donald Trump cost reduction program with the Department of Government efficiency.
In a press release on March 14, the Loveland police department said Frederick, a resident of Fort Collins, was arrested after a “incendiary device had been ignited and thrown” at the Tesla dealer, landing between two vehicles.
“Several people inside, who cleaned the building, were endangered; however, our agent who responded quickly extinguished the fire, preventing new damage.
He was reserved for five state accusations, including possession of explosives or an incendiary apparatus, police said.
Bondi said that Frederick had been arrested in Plano, Texas, following “major FBI investigations”. She did not specify the federal accusations he faced and the load documents were not available for the public when this article was published.
Frederick is not the only one to face charges related to the Loveland dealer.
Lucy Grace Nelson, 40, was charged in February of criminal intention to commit a crime, a criminal mischief and to use explosives or incendiary devices during a crime in the dealer, according to Colorado police files.
Last month, Bondi said that the DoJ had charged several suspects accused of having attacked Tesla property, including some with crimes that bear minimum five -year mandatory penalties.
Paul Hyon Kim, 36, is also confronted with state and federal accusations, including criminal fire, illegal possession of incendiary devices and firearms, destruction of goods and the exit of a firearm in a vehicle in a Tesla dealership in Las Vegas last week, compared to Las Vegas Metropolitan Department and Doj.
Last month, Musk told Fox News that he was shocked by violence. He called it “insane and deeply bad” on X writing, “Tesla just makes electric cars and did nothing to deserve these bad attacks.”
A fire in a Tesla dealership in Rome destroyed 17 cars on Monday. Local firefighters told Bi that the cause was under investigation. Musk posted to X it was “terrorism”.
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