The resident of Kansas City, Missouri, 19, was arrested for allegedly burning Tesla vehicles last month, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
Owen McIntire, who will attend the University in Boston, was arrested and made his initial appearance in the Court on Friday to face federal charges related to a fire attack at a Tesla dealership in Kansas City on March 17.
The teenager, who was at home in Kansas City for spring vacations at the time of the incident, is accused of a position of illegal possession of an unregistered destructive device and a malicious damage charge for fire of any property used in interstate trade, federal prosecutors said.
McIntire is the second person arrested this week for federal charges for alleged attacks of fires caused against Tesla’s dealerships.
Two Tesla Cybertrucks caught fire at a Tesla dealership in Kansas City, on March 17, 2025.
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“Let me be extremely clear for anyone who still wants to bombard a Tesla property: it will not evade,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “You will be arrested. You will be processed. It will spend decades after bars. It is not worth it.”
According to the Affidavit, an officer of the Kansas City Police Department “observed the smoke from a gray cybertruck parked in the parking lot of the KC Tesla center” at approximately 11:16 pm on March 17.
Police recovered a uninterrupted suspicious incendiary device, or a Molotov cocktail, on the scene near the burning Cybertruck, said the affidavit.
An image that shows the suspect in a fire attack in a Tesla center in Kansas City of judicial documents.
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The fire spread from a cyber to a second, with two accusation stations also damaged by the flames, federal prosecutors said.
“This was not vandalism, it was a violent criminal act,” said Dan Driscoll, interim director of the Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Federal prosecutors said the two CrybeRtrucks had sales prices of $ 105,485 and $ 107,485, and the two load stations were valued individually at $ 550.
“This arrest continued to reinforce a clear message from the FBI: we are committed to guaranteeing the security of our violent actors community,” said FBI Special Agent Kansas City in charge of Stephen Cyrus in a statement.
Owen McIntire at Kansas City International Airport in an image published by the Department of Justice.
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It is not clear immediately if McIntire presented a plea to the positions and information of his lawyer was not available from Friday afternoon.
Another suspect, Jamison Wagner of New Mexico, faces federal charges in relation to two attacks with fires caused against a Tesla dealership and the state headquarters of the Republican Party in Albuquerque, according to judicial documents revealed this week. Wagner has not yet entered a plea.
The vehicles, the concessionaires and the load stations of Tesla have been destroyed, suffered a fire and faced protests in several cities around the country in recent months since the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, began their work in the White House leading the Government Efficiency Department, or Doge.
