A UMass Boston pupil from Kansas Metropolis went residence on break final month and used two Molotov cocktails to set a hearth that broken two Cybertrucks at a Tesla dealership, in line with federal officers, who arrested the person on the Columbia Level campus immediately.
Owen McIntire, 19, of Kansas Metropolis, was charged with one rely of illegal possession of an unregistered damaging machine and one rely of malicious injury by fireplace of any property utilized in interstate commerce.
McInitire allegedly crammed an empty apple cider vinegar bottles with gasoline, stuffed a rag in, went to the dealership the evening of March 17 and tossed them on the vans, in line with an affidavit by an FBI agent on the case – who added a passing police officer noticed the smoke and located one of many bottle on fireplace, however nonetheless intact.
A part of the investigation included scanning UMass campus-access and dining-hall databases to verify McIntire was not on campus that week.
UMass Boston notified its campus immediately that:
Earlier immediately, brokers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) arrived on the workplaces of the College of Massachusetts Boston Campus Police to execute an arrest warrant for an enrolled pupil on the College. Per its commonplace protocol, Campus Police reviewed and confirmed the brokers have been performing on a certified warrant signed by a United States Justice of the Peace Choose and accompanied them as they executed the warrant. The coed was arrested with out incident and is now in federal custody. Â
The college can have no touch upon the continuing federal prison investigation.Â
