Colorado man federally charged in Tesla firebomb attack: 'Justice is coming,' AG Pam Bondi says

A antheral accused of firebombing a Tesla dealership successful Colorado is facing national charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday. 

Cooper Jo Fredrick, 24, was arrested successful Plano, Texas, connected suspicion of attacking a Tesla dealership connected March 7 successful Loveland, Colo., Bondi said. 

"Let this beryllium a warning. You tin run, but you cannot hide," Bondi said successful a video message. "Justice is coming."

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Cooper Jo Frederick, 24, allegedly firebombed a Tesla dealership successful Colorado earlier this month.  (Larimer County Sheriff's Office)

Frederick, a nonmigratory of Fort Collins, Colo., allegedly ignited an incendiary instrumentality and hurled it astatine the dealership, narrowly missing respective parked vehicles. The instrumentality landed betwixt 2 cars, and created a fire, Loveland constabulary said. 

Several radical wrong the dealership who were cleaning the gathering were contiguous astatine the time, constabulary said. However, a quick-thinking serviceman astatine the country extinguished the flames and nary 1 was harmed. 

The gathering and respective vehicles were besides damaged by rocks, constabulary said. 

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Tesla laminitis Elon Musk addresses the question of convulsive protests against the car maker's dealerships and vehicles. (Getty Images/Fox News)

"I've made it wide (that) if you instrumentality portion successful the question of home coercion against Tesla properties, we volition find you, apprehension you and enactment you down bars," Bondi said. "All of these cases are a superior menace to nationalist safety. Therefore, determination volition beryllium nary negotiation."

Frederick was arrested a week aft the attack. Federal prosecutors are seeking 20 years successful prison, Bondi said. 

In summation to the national charges against him, Frederick is besides facing section charges, including second-degree arson and possession of explosives oregon incendiary devices. 

He is 1 of respective suspects charged successful transportation with attacks connected Tesla dealerships and factories successful caller weeks. The attacks appeared to halfway connected Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his relation with the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

Lucy Grace Nelson, 42, besides known arsenic Justin Thomas Nelson, is besides facing charges successful transportation with a abstracted Feb. 27 incidental astatine the aforesaid Loveland dealership.

Lucy Grace Nelson is charged with a fig of crimes related to incidents astatine a Colorado Tesla dealership. (Loveland Police Department)

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In effect to the attacks, the FBI has launched a task unit to ace down connected the violence, with the radical created successful conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) to coordinate investigative activity.