Man arrested in Molotov cocktail attack at Tesla shop in Las Vegas will also face federal charges

A Las Vegas antheral has been charged successful the Molotov cocktail onslaught that torched respective Teslas astatine a dealership past week. 

Paul Hyon Kim, 36, was arrested Wednesday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, aft astatine slightest 5 cars were allegedly acceptable connected occurrence March 18 astatine a section Tesla Collision Center.

Kim has been charged with aggregate crimes ranging from demolition of property, arson, and possessing a occurrence device, according to jailhouse records. 

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Paul Hyon Kim, 36, is charged with firebombing respective Tesla vehicles astatine a Las Vegas dealership.  (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police)

He volition besides look national charges, Spencer Evans, the FBI agent-in-charge of the bureau's Las Vegas office, told reporters astatine a Thursday quality briefing. 

"There's thing courageous oregon noble astir firebombing backstage spot and terrorizing your section community," Evans said. "The self-righteous mob that's cheering you connected contiguous to perpetrate acts of unit connected their behalf volition permission you precocious and adust and hide astir you tomorrow. And astatine the extremity of the day, you and you unsocial volition beryllium held liable and look the imaginable of a lengthy situation sentence."

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Police accidental Kim arrived adjacent the determination successful a achromatic Hyundai Elantra earlier walking implicit to the Tesla building. He allegedly concealed his face, wore gloves and achromatic clothing. 

Five Tesla vehicles were acceptable connected occurrence and changeable astatine successful what constabulary are investigating arsenic a "targeted attack" astatine a section repair halfway successful Las Vegas, March 18. (Hal Sparks via Storyful)

He allegedly besides damaged surveillance cameras with a rifle, constabulary said.

The connection "resist" was spray-painted connected the Tesla center’s beforehand doors. An unlit Molotov cocktail was recovered successful 1 of the cars, constabulary said. 

Authorities said Kim's societal media enactment showed imaginable links to communist groups and Palestinian causes. His DNA matched DNA samples collected astatine the country of the attack, authorities said. 

Investigators searched 2 vehicles linked to Kim and his apartment, and recovered aggregate firearms, including rifles, a shotgun a handgun, weapon parts, arsenic good arsenic ammunition. 

Authorities are investigating a imaginable arson onslaught involving a Molotov cocktail connected 5 Teslas astatine a collision halfway successful Las Vegas, March 18.  (Souphany Vannavong via Storyful)

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Multiple attacks connected Tesla dealerships and factories person been reported successful caller weeks, galore stemming from opponents of the Trump medication and Elon Musk implicit his relation with the electrical conveyance institution and his enactment wrong the administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

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