FBI arrests college student who allegedly set 2 Tesla Cyvertrucks on fire

He's a dude

Picture the scene: a 19-year-old college kid, Owen McIntire, allegedly goes full anarchist, chucking two homemade Molotov cocktails at a pair of Cybertrucks parked at a Tesla Center in Kansas City. 

This is no prank—those trucks, worth over a hundred grand each, went up in flames. 

The Justice Department dropped the hammer Friday, nailing McIntire with charges of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and maliciously torching property tied to interstate commerce. The young man's facing serious time.

The feds didn’t mess around. Using surveillance footage and cell phone data, the FBI zeroed in on the alleged miscreant, a Boston college student at UMass, who was apparently back home in KC on spring break when he decided to play fire-starter. 

They’ve got video from nearby houses showing some dude in “dark flowy clothing and a large, white-colored hat” skulking around the crime scene—yep, they’re saying that’s our boy Owen. The FBI matched the car, the footage, and witness accounts to pin him down. Case is as tight as Kamala Harris and a box wine. 

Attorney General Pamela Bondi came out swinging: “Let me be extremely clear to anyone who still wants to firebomb a Tesla property: you will not evade us. You will be arrested. You will be prosecuted. You will spend decades behind bars. It is not worth it.” 

No mincing words there—she’s ready to bury anyone dumb enough to try this, and yes, Owen apparently was that idiot.

Rewind to March 17: a cop spots smoke near the KC Tesla Showroom, sees a Cybertruck burning. He douses the fire outside, but the truck’s toast, and the flames spread to another vehicle. Total loss: two high-dollar rigs. Surveillance paints a clear picture, and the feds weren’t playing catch-up for long.

This isn't an isolated tantrum. 

Tesla’s been catching heat nationwide—vandalism, arson, you name it—ever since Elon Musk started flexing with the Department of Government Efficiency. The Justice Department’s calling these attacks straight-up domestic terrorism. 

FBI Director Kash Patel doubled down: “This is the second arrest this week of a suspect charged with targeting Tesla, more proof that the FBI will not stand for these destructive acts. These actions are dangerous, they are illegal, and we are going to arrest those responsible.” 

Kash is not bluffing.

Just Monday, the DOJ nabbed 40-year-old Jamison Wagner for allegedly firebombing the Republican Party’s headquarters and a Tesla showroom in New Mexico. That attack gutted the GOP’s Albuquerque base and torched two more Teslas. 

Wagner’s staring down a possible 40-year bid if convicted.

McIntire? He’s up to his eyeballs in dung. The feds are playing hardball, and the message is loud: mess with Tesla, you’re not just poking a company—you’re begging for a cell. 

Brain Flushings over and out.

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Terrorist lawyer who helped firebomb NYPD car sentenced to prison

Brooklyn, NY -- A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Colinford Mattis, a corporate lawyer who firebombed an NYPD police car during a Black Lives Matter riot in 2020 was sentenced to only a year in jail. He argued that his elite education--boarding school, Princeton University, a law degree from NYU--should make him be considered a peacekeeper, in spite of his throwing a firebomb at a police car on a public street where anything but peace was taking place.

“You’re not one of the oppressed. You’re one of the privileged,” senior Eastern District of New York Judge Brian M. Cogan told the arrogant person, in spite of the judge expressed admiration for what the 35-year-old had accomplished in his life.

This sentencing marked the climax to a two-and-a-half year legal battle along that he and his co-defendant Urooj Rahman, 33, fought and made them symbols of America's divisions and political upheavals. The case spanned the Trump and Biden administrations and there have been mixed emotions on both sides of the political spectrum.

Insofar as the Heritage Foundation is concerned, they were "terrorists." But far left New York magazine claimed that they could be seen as "civil-rights heroes, even martyrs." And The Daily Mail called them "woke lawyers." In the pages of former newspaper New York Times, they were described by a guest contributor as victims of "deeply ingrained injustices."

Yes, they were the victims, not the businesses that were torched, along with police vehicles, and people who were attacked and in some instances severely beaten. This privileged lawyer and his co-defendant were somehow the victims because their ideology somehow excuses their behavior.

The DOJ in the Trump administration tried to put them away for 45 years at minimum, but under the Biden administration, when he appeared to become president, the DOJ settled for much less. The pair ended up pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit arson last summer, and both will lose their law licenses, as well they should.

Rahman will be spending 15 months in jail for her part.

But these clowns should not give up hope. MSNBC and CNN both have warm seats that might be waiting for them in a year. In CNN's case, that seat might need a good anti-Toobin alcohol cleaning.

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