A New Mexico man has been arrested and federally charged in connection with two separate arson attacks on a Tesla dealership and the Republican Party’s state headquarters in Albuquerque, according to newly unsealed court documents, writes ABC NEWS.
Jamison Wagner is alleged to have set fires at a Tesla showroom in Bernalillo on Feb. 9 and vandalized several vehicles in the parking lot with phrases including, “Die Elon”, “Tesla Nazi Inc”, “Die Tesla Nazi”, according to a federal complaint.
Wagner also allegedly spray-painted the showroom itself, according to pictures from his criminal affidavit. The complaint includes images from surveillance video prosecutors said show the arson suspect wearing all-black clothing, a black mask and hoodie.
Wagner is also alleged to have separately set a fire in the early morning hours of March 30 at the New Mexico state GOP party’s headquarters in Albuquerque.
When firefighters responded to the scene, they discovered graffiti with the phrase “ICE=KKK” on the south wall of the building, written in a way investigators say “appeared to be substantially similar” to the spray-painting at the Tesla dealership.