The Department of Justice on Friday announced that it had arrested a Kansas City teenager attending college in Boston and charged him in the arson attack on two Tesla Cybertrucks and charging stations last month in Missouri.

The DOJ said Owen McIntire, 19, made his initial court appearance in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on Friday on charges of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire of any property used in interstate commerce.

The charges stem from a March 17 incident at the Kansas City Tesla Center. The FBI said McIntire used a Molotov cocktail to set a Cybertruck on fire, with the fire spreading to a second truck. The Cybertrucks had sale prices of $105,485 and $107,485.

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