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Tag: Arson
April 14, 2025
Crime
Politics

DOJ Charges Suspect in Arson Attacks on Tesla Showroom, GOP Office.

PULSE POINTS:

❓What Happened: Federal authorities detained a man following arson incidents at a Tesla showroom and the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

👥 Who’s Involved: Jamison Wagner, aged 40, is the suspect in these arson attacks.

📍Where & When: The attacks took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the Republican Party office fire reported on March 30, 2025, and the Tesla showroom attack occurring on February 9.

💬 Key Quote: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated, “Hurling firebombs is not political protest… it is a dangerous felony that we will prosecute to the maximum extent.”

⚠️ Impact: Wagner faces charges that could lead to up to 20 years in prison per count if found guilty.

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A 40-year-old New Mexico man has been apprehended by federal authorities in relation to arson attacks targeting both a Tesla showroom and the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of Jamison Wagner on Monday, charging him with two federal counts of malicious damage or destruction of property by fire or explosives.

The arrest comes amid a number of recent arrests for attacks and acts of vandalism against Tesla properties and vehicles. Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, have been the target of increasingly violent leftist rhetoric over the billionaire technology mogul’s work with President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—tasked with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal agencies. Wagner’s February 9 arson attack on the Tesla showroom also included the defacement of the building with graffiti carrying incendiary messages against Musk. Two electric vehicles were burned in the Tesla showroom attack, with one being seriously damaged.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has made it clear that such actions are being treated as severe crimes, emphasizing in a statement, “Hurling firebombs is not political protest… it is a dangerous felony that we will prosecute to the maximum extent.”

In late March, Wagner followed up his Tesla showroom attack, this time targeting the Republican Party of New Mexico’s (RPNM) headquarters in Albuquerque using several incendiary devices. The fire damaged the front door and entryway of the RPNM office, and Wagner again defaced the building exterior with graffiti—this time stating “ICE=KKK.”

Wagner is currently in federal custody pending a hearing regarding his detention. He faces upwards of 20 years in prison on each count if convicted.

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March 27, 2025
Crime
Politics

Suspect Nabbed for Arson at Tesla Site.

IN BRIEF:

❓What Happened: A man was arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails and shooting at Tesla vehicles.

👥 Who’s Involved: Paul Kim, a 36-year-old cinematographer who appears to have ties to pro-Palestinian and pro-Communist activism.

📍 Where & When: Las Vegas, at the Tesla Collision Center on March 18.

💬 Key Quote: “This case has been worked around the clock,” Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren said.

⚠️ Impact: Paul Kim faces both state and federal charges, with significant law enforcement resources dedicated to the investigation.

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Las Vegas police have arrested a cinematographer, 36-year-old Paul Kim, on charges related to a violent incident at a Tesla facility in the city earlier this month. Kim is accused of using Molotov cocktails and a firearm in an attack at Las Vegas’s  Tesla Collision Center. Following a police investigation, Kim was apprehended and now faces multiple felony charges, including arson and possessing an explosive device, according to Clark County jail records.

Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren revealed on Thursday that the suspect was identified after fleeing in a Black Honda Elantra, making it possible for authorities to locate and detain him successfully. “This case has been worked around the clock,” Koren stated, highlighting the collaborative effort between local law enforcement and the FBI.

Sheriff Kevin McMahill emphasized the role of technology in the investigation, noting that cameras, drones, and license plate readers were instrumental in tracking and resolving the case. FBI Special Agent Spencer Evans, who manages the Las Vegas field office, noted the federal charges Kim faces over the attack. “For individuals who are contemplating similar attacks, there’s nothing courageous or noble about firebombing private property and terrorizing your local community,” Evans commented.

Kim allegedly attacked the facility at approximately 2:45 AM on March 18. The suspect reportedly fired three rounds into Tesla vehicles in what officials described as a targeted assault. Authorities have recovered numerous firearms and parts from their search, including rifles, a shotgun, and a handgun.

The Las Vegas Sheriff’s Department notes that Kim’s social media presence appears to link him to the Communist Party USA and the Revolutionary Communist International. Additionally, several social media posts appear to link Kim to pro-Palestinian activist groups.

Family members have expressed shock at the news of his arrest, with Kim’s brother, Andrew Kim, declining to comment beyond acknowledging his surprise. This incident follows a series of violent actions against properties connected with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Law enforcement officials urge the public that participating in similar activities may lead to severe legal consequences.

Image from Paul Kim’s social media. 

Editor’s Note: Due to an automated transcription error, this article first read that Mr. Kim was linked to the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, which is apparently different from the Revolutionary Communist International. The error was amended when it was brought to our attention.

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March 24, 2025
Crime
TECH

FBI Warns of Cyber Attacks Targeting Tesla.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a national alert regarding potential cyber-attacks targeting the automaker Tesla. Far-left extremists recently launched a terror campaign against the company and its owner, Elon Musk, who fronts President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

According to an FBI statement released on March 21, incidents involving the targeting of Tesla electric vehicles (EVs) have been noted in at least nine states since January 2025. These attacks include arson, gunfire, and vandalism. The graffiti left at the scene often voices grievances toward individuals perceived as racists, fascists, or political adversaries. The FBI highlighted that these actions are usually carried out by lone offenders using basic methods such as improvised incendiary devices and firearms, typically during nighttime hours.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi labeled these attacks as “domestic terrorism” and emphasized continued efforts to prosecute offenders. President Trump has also remarked he would consider classifying violence against Tesla as a terrorism charge.

Some far-left activists have even doxxed Tesla owners in the United States, publishing their personal details, including home addresses.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a national alert regarding potential cyber-attacks targeting the automaker Tesla. Far-left extremists recently launched a terror campaign against the company and its owner, Elon Musk, who fronts President Donald J. Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). show more
March 18, 2025
Crime
News

Arson Suspected as Multiple Vehicles Torched at Las Vegas Tesla Center.

Multiple Tesla vehicles have been set on fire at a service center in Las Vegas in the latest alleged attack on Tesla products in the United States. Law enforcement and fire officials are investigating a suspected arson incident after multiple vehicles were set ablaze in the early morning of March 18.

The fires occurred at a Tesla center located near Jones Boulevard and Badura Avenue. According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, officers were alerted to the scene around 2:45 AM. Video footage captured by the Las Vegas Review-Journal reportedly shows Tesla vehicles engulfed in flames.

The incident has arisen amid a series of attacks on Tesla properties across the United States, some of which have reportedly been linked to protests against Tesla chief Elon Musk‘s connections to President Donald J. Trump.

The Las Vegas division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is collaborating with local investigators on the case. The surrounding area remains closed as the investigation continues.

Tesla’s global sales declined for the first time in nearly a decade last year, delivering 1.79 million vehicles compared to 1.81 million the year prior. However, the company secured a $400 million contract with the federal government last month to produce armored Tesla Cybertrucks for the U.S. State Department.

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Multiple Tesla vehicles have been set on fire at a service center in Las Vegas in the latest alleged attack on Tesla products in the United States. Law enforcement and fire officials are investigating a suspected arson incident after multiple vehicles were set ablaze in the early morning of March 18. show more
March 6, 2025
Crime
Immigration
News

Sanctuary Laws Protect Migrant Who Burned Woman Alive from ICE.

An illegal alien who has been charged with setting a woman on fire while she was sleeping on a New York City subway is being protected from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by state sanctuary laws. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a 33-year-old Guatemalan national, is accused of setting Debrina Kawam, 57, on fire and killing her last year.

Zapeta-Calil has been charged with murder and arson following the December 22 incident at Brooklyn’s Coney Island station. After allegedly setting Kawam aflame, Zapeta-Calil reportedly fanned the blaze with a shirt to intensify it before observing the scene from a platform bench.

Due to New York City’s sanctuary city policies, the Department of Corrections has not honored an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer for Zapeta-Calil.

ICE reports that Zapeta-Calil entered the U.S. illegally in 2018 and was subsequently deported, but re-entered the country at an unspecified time. Before his arrest, he was residing in a Brooklyn shelter and working as a roofer.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has urged Governor Kathy Hochul (D) to suspend sanctuary protections immediately. Mayor Eric Adams has also called for collaboration between the NYPD and ICE, requesting federal prosecutors charge Zapeta-Calil in addition to state charges.

Zapeta-Calil has entered a plea of not guilty.

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An illegal alien who has been charged with setting a woman on fire while she was sleeping on a New York City subway is being protected from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by state sanctuary laws. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a 33-year-old Guatemalan national, is accused of setting Debrina Kawam, 57, on fire and killing her last year. show more
September 26, 2024
Crime
Religion
World

Wave of Arson Hits 9 Churches in Just 3 Weeks.

Nine churches were the targets of arson attacks over a span of three weeks from late August to mid-September in Europe, according to the Observatory of Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe. Three of the incidents, targeting Catholic places of worship, occurred in the Netherlands.

The sequence of recent arson began on August 25 in Bad Wörishofen, Germany. In that instance, both the church and its altar cloth were set ablaze, resulting in damage valued at several thousand euros, as mentioned in the statement.

Another notable incident occurred on September 2 at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, France. A suspect linked to this fire, with extreme left links and a history of sharing anti-Christian and pro-Islamic State content on social media. They have reportedly made previous attempts to set fire to 15 churches.

The most recent attack took place on September 15 at St. Anthony the Abbot Church in Wijchen, in the Netherlands. Here, attackers destroyed statues and set personal and devotional objects on fire.

Alongside these events in Europe, the United States has also seen a rise in vandalism and attacks on Catholic churches. Since May 2020, there have been 452 such incidents, with 57 reported this year alone on the CatholicVoteviolence tracker.

The Biden-Harris FBI has targeted traditional Catholics as extremists despite Joe Biden’s claims to be a Catholic. Vice President Kamala Harris is less concerned about keeping up appearances and is snubbing Catholics by skipping the annual Al Smith Dinner.

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Nine churches were the targets of arson attacks over a span of three weeks from late August to mid-September in Europe, according to the Observatory of Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe. Three of the incidents, targeting Catholic places of worship, occurred in the Netherlands. show more
September 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Culture
Religion
World

Church Arson Suspect was at Large Despite Previously Targeting 5 Churches.

A 19th-century church was partially destroyed in an arson attack on Sunday. Police say the main suspect in the case has not only been convicted of church burnings in the past, but was only just released from prison.

The 39-year-old suspect was arrested shortly after a fire consumed the Roman Catholic Immaculate Conception church in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. It was revealed Tuesday, September 3, that he had been convicted of prior church attacks, attempting to set fire to at least five different churches.

The suspect had been in prison since 2021 but was recently released. While police say he has a history of attacking churches, the information they have released on him, beyond his sex and age, is limited, and they have not explained his motivation.

Social media reports have offered a name for the suspect and alleged he posted about Islam and Palestinian statehood, but such claims remain unverified as of the time of publication.

MANY INCIDENTS.

Over the last several years, attacks on French churches and other Christian sites have become so frequent that members of the Roman Catholic clergy and nonprofits are sounding alarm bells.

Several attacks on French churches have seen people killed, including the 2020 Nice attacks, which saw a jihadist migrant from Tunisia stab three churchgoers to death, and the killing of Father Jacques Hamel in 2016, also by Islamic extremists.

A Catholic group called the Observatory for Christianophobia has documented over a thousand cases of anti-Christian attacks since 2017, from thefts to desecrations and other incidents.

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A 19th-century church was partially destroyed in an arson attack on Sunday. Police say the main suspect in the case has not only been convicted of church burnings in the past, but was only just released from prison. show more
August 9, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
Politics
World

Populist Who Survived Murder Attempt Has Car Set on Fire.

Police in the German city of Bremen state that unknown suspects set fire to a vehicle owned by a former populist lawmaker who was almost murdered in 2019. In the early morning of Thursday, August 8, a Volkswagen was set on fire in a public parking lot in the city. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze before it could set fire to a nearby apartment building.

The vehicle is said to belong to Frank Magnitz, a former member of the German parliament for the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Police say they are investigating a possible political motive for the attack.

In 2019, Magnitz was savagely beaten, nearly to death, while walking down a street in Bremen after leaving a local theatre. Antifa militants took credit for the attack on a platform associated with far-left extremism. However, no arrests were ever made, nor were any suspects named in the case.

The attack matches similar assaults carried out by the notorious Antifa-aligned Hammerbande (Hammer Gang) group. The Hammer Gang terrorizes political opponents by beating them bloody with claw hammers.

Members of the Hammerbande traveled to Budapest, Hungary, last year, where they attacked both populists and random bystanders in a rampage across the city.

An Italian national connected to the gang was arrested by Hungarian police but was later elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), giving her immunity from prosecution.

Image by Markus Spiske.

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Police in the German city of Bremen state that unknown suspects set fire to a vehicle owned by a former populist lawmaker who was almost murdered in 2019. In the early morning of Thursday, August 8, a Volkswagen was set on fire in a public parking lot in the city. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze before it could set fire to a nearby apartment building. show more
July 26, 2024
Jack Montgomery
NatSec
World

Arson Attacks, Bomb Threats Plunge France Into Chaos as Paris Olympics Begin.

The Summer Olympics in Paris, France, are plunging into chaos amid a series of “coordinated malicious acts” targeting the city’s transport network. Arsonists lit fires inside pipes holding electrical cables crucial to the high-speed rail network across the European Union (EU) member state, and bomb threats shut down the Paris, Gare du Nord railway station and triggered an evacuation at the EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg hub at the tri-border area between France, Germany, and Switzerland.

State-owned railway operator SNCF says arsonists targeted lines serving routes from Paris to Lille in the north, Bordeaux in the west, and Strasbourg, which borders Germany and hosts plenary sessions of the European Parliament, in the east. Eurostar says services between Paris and London, England, are also suffering, with some trains redirected or canceled and many travelers suffering extended journey times.

The disruption will impact at least a quarter of a million people today, ahead of the Olympics’ opening ceremony, and a further 800,000 people across the weekend.

“The consequences on the rail network are massive and serious,” said outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. “I am thinking of all the French people, all the families, who were getting ready to go on vacation… Our intelligence services and law enforcement are mobilized to find and punish the perpetrators of these criminal acts,” he added.

As of the time of publication, the authorities have offered no suggestions as to who could be responsible for the attacks.

The French government has implemented an unprecedented security operation in hopes of safeguarding the multicultural capital during the Olympics, deploying over 45,000 police officers, 10,000 soldiers, and 2,000 private security agents.

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The Summer Olympics in Paris, France, are plunging into chaos amid a series of "coordinated malicious acts" targeting the city's transport network. Arsonists lit fires inside pipes holding electrical cables crucial to the high-speed rail network across the European Union (EU) member state, and bomb threats shut down the Paris, Gare du Nord railway station and triggered an evacuation at the EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg hub at the tri-border area between France, Germany, and Switzerland. show more
dirty air
August 30, 2023
News

Dirty Air Worse than Tobacco or Booze, Study Claims.

Air pollution poses a greater threat to global public health than smoking or alcohol, according to a study by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. The annual Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) report showed that fine particulate air pollution, caused by vehicle and industrial emissions, wildfires, and more, remains the “greatest external threat to public health.” If the world were to permanently reduce these pollutants to meet the World Health Organization’s guideline limit, the average person would extend their life expectancy by 2.3 years. The level of funding allocated to addressing air pollution is significantly lower than the amount assigned to combat infectious diseases.

South Asia is particularly affected by air pollution, with Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan ranking as the top four most polluted countries. In Bangladesh, residents would gain an average of 6.8 years of life if particulate pollution levels reached WHO guidelines. Meanwhile, India’s capital city, Delhi, is recognized as the “most polluted megacity in the world.”

China has made progress in reducing air pollution since 2014, claiming a 42.3 percent decrease in pollution levels between 2013 and 2021. In the United States, efforts such as the Clean Air Act have led to a 64.9 percent reduction in pollution since 1970, resulting in a gain of 1.4 years of life expectancy for Americans. Wildfires, fueled by arsonists not climate change, are causing pollution spikes in regions such as Western US, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Bosnia is identified as Europe’s most polluted country, highlighting differences between western and eastern Europe in terms of air quality.

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Air pollution poses a greater threat to global public health than smoking or alcohol, according to a study by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. The annual Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) report showed that fine particulate air pollution, caused by vehicle and industrial emissions, wildfires, and more, remains the "greatest external threat to public health." If the world were to permanently reduce these pollutants to meet the World Health Organization's guideline limit, the average person would extend their life expectancy by 2.3 years. The level of funding allocated to addressing air pollution is significantly lower than the amount assigned to combat infectious diseases. show more