A 19 -year -old Kansas City resident Missouri was arrested for allegedly burned Tesla vehicles last month, the Ministry of Justice announced on Friday.
Owen Mcintire, who frequented the college of Boston, was arrested and appeared in the initial court on Friday to face federal accusations linked to a criminal fire at a Tesla dealer in Kansas City on March 17.
The adolescent, who was at home in Kansas City for the spring holidays at the time of the incident, is accused of an illegal chief of possession of an unregistered destructive device and a malicious damper by fire of all used in interstate trade, the federal prosecutors said.
Mcintire is the second person arrested this week for federal accusations for alleged criminal fire attacks against Tesla dealerships.
Two Tesla cybertrucks caught fire from a Tesla dealership in Kansas City on March 17, 2025.
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“Let me be extremely clear for anyone who always wants to bomb a Tesla property: you will not escape us,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “You will be stopped. You will be continued. You will pass decades behind bars. It is not worth it.”
According to the Affidavit, an officer of the Kansas City police department “observed smoke from a gray cybertruck parked in the parking lot of the KC Tesla Center” around 11:16 p.m. on March 17.
Police have recovered an uninterrupted suspicious incendiary system – or a Molotov cocktail – on the scene near the fire cybertruck, said affidavit.
An image showing the suspect in a criminal fire in a Tesla center in Kansas City from court documents.
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The fire spread from a cybertruck to a second, with two load terminals also damaged by the flames, the federal prosecutors said.
“It was not vandalism – it was a violent criminal act,” said Dan Driscoll, acting director of the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives.
Federal prosecutors said the two Crybertrucks had selling prices of $ 105,485 and $ 107,485, and that the two charging stations were individually evaluated at $ 550.
“This arrest continued to strengthen a clear message from the FBI: we are committed to ensuring the security and security of our community of violent actors,” said Stephen Cyrus, special agent of the FBI Kansas City statement.
Owen Mcintire at Kansas City International Airport in an image published by the Ministry of Justice.
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It is not immediately clear if Mcintire argued accusations and that his lawyer was not available on Friday afternoon.
Another suspect, Jamison Wagner of New Mexico, faces federal accusations as part of two distinct criminal fire attacks against a Tesla dealer and the state headquarters of the Republican Party in Albuquerque, according to non-sealed legal documents this week. Wagner has not yet pleaded.
The vehicles, dealers and charging stations of Tesla have been vandalized, have undergone a criminal fire and have faced demonstrations in several cities across the country in recent months since the CEO of the company, Elon Musk, began its work at the White House which runs the Ministry of Government, or Doge.
