A Las Vegas The man was arrested due to Molotov cocktail fire -fighting attack Tesla Vehicles on this city in mid -March, the authorities said on Thursday.
The incident was top-of-the-line profiled vandalism acts in a lot of attacks on Tesla locations across the country in reference to the role of CEO of firms, Elon Musk, in Trump administration, which is leading to scale back the efforts, the expenditure of the federal government and the staff.
The FBI referred to those incidents as “domestic terrorism” and launched a task force to tackle the attacks.
Paul Hyon Kim36, stands in front of state and federal charges for the attack on Tesla Collision in West Badura Avenue in Las Vegas at 2:45 a.m. on March 18.
According to a criminal criticism, five Teslas were damaged by Molotow cocktails and or balls.
Kim was arrested on Wednesday in reference to the incident with Las Vegas, two days after a police bomb squad found several fire equipment in a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas. The federal authorities said Kim booked a flight for Thursday from Las Vegas to Milwaukee.
The authorities identified Kim because the suspect within the attack of Las Vegas from the surveillance video of a Hyundai vehicle that was left near the scene of the incident, in addition to other evidence, including spherical fragments, and cellphone tower recordings and the criticism.
The criticism states that Kim submitted an insurance claim lower than three hours after the attack at 5:30 a.m. during which the tires of his own automotive had been broken down and his automotive had been stolen after which recovered.
However, a request from the local police reports didn’t show that Kim had informed the police that his automotive was stolen or recovered, the criticism said.
A seek for Kim's residence found a black backpack with pink color, a black hoodie, face masks, ammunition, holster, weapon parts, an AR-style rifle, an AK-style rifle and a pistol, it says within the criticism.
“Paper with a handwritten exit route from Tesla on Badura was also found.”
The Federal Prosecutor's Office in Las Vegas have accused Kim of the illegal property of an unregistered firearm and an arson.
In the USA and Canada, at the very least 80 cases of vandalism or arson of Tesla vehicles were reported.
Musk wrote in a tweet who replied to news about Kim's arrest: “Legacy Media Propaganda convinced this guy to do this. Same media that have convinced assassins to target the president.”
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