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General Category => Crime And Punishment => Topic started by: mountaineer on April 08, 2024, 06:44:28 pm
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Man arrested for setting fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office; motive remains unclear
Updated 2:02 PM EDT, April 7, 2024
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A man was charged Sunday with setting a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said.
Shant Soghomonian, 35, who was previously of Northridge, California, entered the building on Friday and went to Sanders’ third-floor office where security video showed him spraying a liquid on the door and setting it afire, officials said.
The building’s interior suffered some damage from the fire and sprinklers that doused the area with water, but no one was hurt. Sanders, an independent, was not in the office at the time.
Soghomonian was arrested Sunday on a charge of using fire to damage a building used in interstate commerce, according to a statement from Nikolas Kerest, the U.S. attorney for Vermont. ...
Associated Press (https://apnews.com/article/fire-office-sen-bernie-sanders-burlington-vermont-687ac8029cc31b3e950f00923d3ff7e9)
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Guess he was feeling the Bern!!! :cool:
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We shan't ever know.
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Guess he was feeling the Bern!!! :cool:
I guess so! :silly:
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Guess he was feeling the Bern!!! :cool:
:rolling:
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Decent fire, looks like it managed to burn through the bottom of the door and the firefighters knocked holes in the wall surrounding the door to put out the wall.
I get the feeling the suspect does not fit the narrative the MSM wants to report much about.