A Kansas City man attending college in Boston has been arrested and charged in federal court for allegedly firebombing two Tesla Cybertrucks at a dealership in Missouri last month using homemade incendiary devices.
Owen McIntire, 19, was taken into custody in Boston and made his initial appearance in Massachusetts federal court on April 18, according to a statement Friday from the Justice Department.
McIntire faces one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire to property used in interstate commerce.
“Let me be extremely clear to anyone who still wants to firebomb a Tesla property: you will not evade us,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. “You will be arrested. You will be prosecuted. You will spend decades behind bars. It is not worth it.”…