Masked Tesla vandal wrecks Cybertruck, leaves note for homeowner in attack caught on video

Police are searching for 2 suspects aft a brace of Teslas were vandalized successful abstracted incidents successful a California assemblage arsenic attacks against the vehicles ramp up passim the country. 

A Tesla Cybertruck was parked successful a vicinity driveway erstwhile the suspect, clad successful achromatic covering with a achromatic look mask, approached the location and began casing the surrounding country astir 4:20 a.m. connected Saturday, according to the Novato Police Department.

Security footage shows the fishy returning to the location astir 1 hr later, carrying a factual stone and covering 1 of the truck’s cameras with duct tape. 

The fishy proceeded to smash the windshield with the factual stone and slash each 4 of the Cybertruck’s tires, constabulary said. Before leaving, the fishy wrote a handwritten enactment to the owner, speechmaking "replace each tires, unsafe to drive." 

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"To travel to my location and program an onslaught similar that, that person’s unsafe and needs to look consequences for what they’ve done," Jason Bedell, the proprietor of the Cybertruck, told KTVU. "I'm a small [shaken] up close now, and I'm acrophobic that they whitethorn perchance travel back, and it's not a bully feeling, having my household here, my young son."

Bedell is offering a $25,000 reward for immoderate accusation starring to the suspect’s arrest. 

The incidental comes aft different Tesla conveyance was precocious vandalized successful the Novato area, according to police. 

"For idiosyncratic to travel up present and bash thing similar that is truly antithetic and precise shocking," Bedell said. 

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Security footage shows the fishy utilizing a factual stone and duct portion to vandalize a Tesla Cybertruck successful Novato, California, connected March 29, 2025. (Novato Police Department)

The Novato Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for further information. 

As attacks connected Tesla vehicles go much prevalent passim the country, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has declared the crimes acts of "domestic terrorism." 

"The swarm of convulsive attacks connected Tesla spot is thing abbreviated of home terrorism," Bondi said in a statement. "We volition proceed investigations that enforce terrible consequences connected those progressive successful these attacks, including those operating down the scenes to coordinate and money these crimes."

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People protestation against Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk extracurricular a Tesla store successful New York City, March 29, 2025. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

Last week, the FBI announced the enactment of a caller task force, established to "crack down connected convulsive Tesla attacks" arsenic vandals person targeted Tesla vehicles – and their owners – crossed the country, pursuing a drawstring of unsafe strikes. 

On March 17, 2 Cybertrucks were lit connected occurrence astatine an Atlanta Tesla showroom, prompting an probe by the FBI and ATF. 

Members of the weaponry squad were called to a Tesla dealership successful Austin, Texas, past week, wherever instrumentality enforcement located aggregate "suspicious devices." 

On March 27, Paul Hyon Kim, 36, was arrested by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for allegedly mounting astatine slightest 5 cars connected occurrence astatine a section Tesla Collision Center. 

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Over the weekend, thousands of anti-Elon Musk protesters descended connected cities passim the satellite to enactment successful a "Global Day of Protest" targeting Tesla vehicles, showrooms and charging stations. 

In airy of the attacks, Bedell believes the vandals are misguided. 

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"All these radical who person vexation against the authorities and Tesla and DOGE are taking it retired connected the incorrect people," Bedell said. "They’re taking it retired connected their neighbors. They're taking it retired connected conscionable moving people. Most of these radical are Democrats that adjacent bought these EV vehicles."

Tesla did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

Fox News Digital's Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.