Just in time for Easter, Wake County Republican Rep. Erin Paré came out of an event on April 17 in Durham to find her car had been vandalized with eggs.
Paré posted photos of the egging. Her car appears to have been the only target, and her car was likely ID’d by her General Assembly license plate.
The thread that followed her initial post showed she and others were able to maintain an egg-cellent sense of humor over the incident.
This is not the first time Paré has seen vandalism during her career at the legislature. During campaign season, I was made aware that some of her yard signs have been stolen and a large wooden sign had been knocked down and damaged.
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While egging a car is more of a teenage style prank, firebombing a Tesla dealership is on a whole other level.
Last night, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrest of another Tesla arsonist, 19-year-old Owen McIntire.
“Let me be extremely clear to anyone who still wants to firebomb a Tesla property: you will not evade us,” said Bondi. “You will be arrested. You will be prosecuted. You will spend decades behind bars. It is not worth it.”
McIntire is being charged in connection with the arson that occurred at a Tesla dealership in Kansas City, Missouri, in March of this year. Specifically, he’s charged with one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire of any property used in interstate commerce. The two charges carry a total possible prison sentence of 20 years.
There has been speculation on social media that McIntire might be transgender.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) was heavily involved in the investigation, per the release and the affidavit that was released.
North Carolina’s Dan Driscoll, who was tapped by President Trump to be secretary of the army, is also currently heading up the ATF as its acting director.
“ATF’s Special Agents and forensic experts recovered and analyzed key evidence—including Molotov cocktails—used in this deliberate and dangerous arson attack,” said Driscoll. “This wasn’t vandalism — it was a violent criminal act.”
According to an affidavit, the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department (KCMOPD) spotted smoke in the area of the Kansas City (KC) Tesla Center. The KCMOPD traced the smoke to a grey Cybertruck in the lot and the officer also saw an unbroken molotov cocktail burning near it.
The fire spread from the grey Cybertruck to a second Cybertruck and the local fire department put out the fires.
“The Cybertrucks had sale prices of $105,485 and $107,485,” per Bondi’s release and the affidavit. “Additionally, two charging stations were damaged by the fire, each of which is valued at approximately $550.”
Per the affidavit, McIntire is a student at UMass Boston and he was surveilled at the Kansas City airport by the FBI.
The affidavit says they were able to track McIntire’s cell phone as pinging in the location of the dealership at the time of the arson and they also got a DNA match.