BURLINGTON, Vt. — A person was charged Sunday with setting a fireplace exterior the Vermont workplace of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors mentioned.
Shant Soghomonian, 35, who was beforehand of Northridge, California, entered the constructing on Friday and went to Sanders’ third-floor workplace the place safety video confirmed him spraying a liquid on the door and setting it afire, officers mentioned.
The constructing’s inside suffered some injury from the hearth and sprinklers that doused the world with water, however nobody was harm. Sanders, an unbiased, was not within the workplace on the time.
Soghomonian was arrested Sunday on a cost of utilizing hearth to wreck a constructing utilized in interstate commerce, in line with an announcement from Nikolas Kerest, the U.S. lawyer for Vermont.
The motive remained unclear. Soghomonian was detained Sunday and couldn’t be reached for remark. It was not instantly recognized if had a lawyer, and an preliminary courtroom look had not been set, officers mentioned.
The crime carries a most penalty of 20 years in jail and a high quality of as much as $250,000.
The case was investigated by police departments in Burlington, Shelburne and Williston; Vermont State Police; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and U.S. Capitol Police, officers mentioned.
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