The Ministry of Justice charged a 19 -year -old from Cybertrucks “Bombardes” to Kansas.
The government has charged Owen Mcintire, 19, with an illegal chief of possession of an unregistered destructive device and a malicious damage chief by fire, said the Ministry of Justice.
Mcintire made his first appearance before the court on Friday, but he was not clear if he had yet obtained a lawyer.
Demonstrators angry with Tesla Elon Musk CEO Work with the White House office to reduce public spending and reduce staff have attacked several Tesla facilities in the United States in recent weeks. Musk said Doge was looking for Cut at least 1 dollars billion of the federal budget. It is Efforts are now the subject of several proceedings.
Cox Automotive data show that Tesla lists have reached a record in March. The company’s share price has also dropped. And coordinated demonstrations targeting Tesla took place across the country at the end of last month.
Two weeks before these demonstrations, on March 17, the Ministry of Justice said that the police of the Kansas City police department in Missouri had seen smoke from a cybertruck parked at a Tesla dealership. The police saw an uninterrupted Molotov cocktail near the smokers. The officer recovered the Molotov cocktail, but the fire has always spread to a second cybertruck.
The Attorney General Pamela Bondi previously declared that the Ministry of Justice would ask for 20 years in prison for another man accused of having attacked a Tesla dealer in Colorado.
Bondi said that the Kansas City incident should serve as a reminder that “anyone who always wants to bomb a Tesla property: you will not escape us.”
“You will be stopped. You will be continued. You will go decades behind bars. It is not worth it,” said Bondi. One of the accusations faced with Mcintire has a maximum penalty of 20 years.
FBI director Kash Patel, said in the press release from the Ministry of Justice that it was the second arrest of a suspect targeting Tesla this week, which is “more proof that the FBI will not defend these destructive acts”.
“These actions are dangerous, they are illegal and we will stop those responsible,” said Patel.
The Ministry of Justice says that the two damaged cybertrucks had a combined sale price of $ 212,970. The fire also damaged two charging stations, which were valued at $ 550 each.
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