Spring Breaker Allegedly Firebombed a Tesla Dealership

Spring Breaker Allegedly Firebombed a Tesla Dealership

Newser - Crime·2025-04-20 01:00

Police believe a UMass Boston college student spent part of his spring break attacking a Tesla dealership back home in Missouri. Owen McIntire, 19, of Parkville, Mo., was arrested after allegedly using Molotov cocktails to firebomb a dealership in Kansas City, reports the Boston Herald. Kansas City Police reportedly noticed smoke coming from a Tesla Cybertruck in the dealership's parking lot around 11:15pm on March 17. The officers couldn't put out the fire, and it spread to another Cybertruck and two Tesla charging stations. Police found an "unbroken suspected incendiary device" near the burning vehicles, and firefighters were eventually able to put out the blaze. According to the Boston Globe, the two vehicles had a combined value of $212,000.

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