The investigators look over the scene in a Tesla collision center after a person on March 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, had set up several vehicles.
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A man from Las Vegas was arrested for the attack by Molotow Cocktail arson Tesla The authorities said vehicles in this city on March 18.
The incident was one of the best profiled vandalism acts in a number of attacks on Tesla locations across the country in connection with the role of CEO of companies, Elon Musk, in Trump administration, which is leading to reduce the efforts, the expenditure of the federal government and the employees.
The FBI referred to these incidents as “domestic terrorism” and launched a task force to tackle the attacks.
The accused, Paul Hyon Kim, 36, will be exposed to the state and federal charges on March 18 at 2:45 a.m. at 2:45 a.m. for the attack on Tesla Collision on West Badura Avenue in Las Vegas.
According to a criminal complaint, five Teslas were damaged by Molotow cocktails and or balls.
On March 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, burned Teslas in a Tesla collision center are displayed in a Tesla collision center to set up several vehicles.
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Kim was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the incident with Las Vegas, two days after a police bomb squad found several fire equipment in a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas. The federal authorities said Kim booked a flight for Thursday from Las Vegas to Milwaukee.
The authorities identified Kim as the suspect in the attack of Las Vegas from the surveillance video of a Hyundai vehicle that was left near the scene of the incident, as well as other evidence, including spherical fragments, and cell phone tower recordings and the complaint.
The complaint states that Kim submitted an insurance claim less than three hours after the attack at 5:30 a.m. in which the tires of his own car had been broken down and his car had been stolen and then recovered.
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However, a request from the local police reports did not show that Kim had informed the police that his car was stolen or recovered, the complaint said.
A search for Kim's residence found a black backpack with pink color, a black hoodie, face masks, ammunition, holster, weapon parts, an AR-style rifle, an AK-style rifle and a pistol, it says in the complaint.
“Paper with a handwritten exit route from Tesla on Badura was also found.”
The Federal Prosecutor's Office in Las Vegas have accused Kim of the illegal property of an unregistered firearm and an arson.
In the USA and Canada, at least 80 cases of vandalism or arson of Tesla vehicles were reported.
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