The suspect’s attorney said that the man would fight the charges and said the case had been politicized due to the defendant’s involvement in anti-war protests.
A surveillance photo shows a suspect placing Molotov cocktails under a University of California police vehicle June 1 at the UC Berkeley campus. Authorities said that a federal grand jury had indicted Casey Robert Goonan, 34, on charges related to the attack. A federal grand jury indicted an East Bay academic on charges of firebombing a University of California police patrol vehicle in Berkeley earlier this summer, according to federal officials.
Around 5 a.m. June 1, 34-year-old Casey Goonan, of Oakland and Pleasant Hill, went to UC Berkeley’s campus carrying a shopping back with six Molotov cocktails, kicked them underneath a police vehicle and ignited them, according to the indictment. The charges were announced Friday in a news release from Ismail J. Ramsey, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California,.
The car caught on fire, authorities said — it did not explode, but its rear seats, fuel port and trunk were severely damaged, making it a total loss. No one was injured. A surveillance photo shows a suspect placing Molotov cocktails under a University of California police vehicle June 1 at the UC Berkeley campus. Authorities said that a federal grand jury had indicted Casey Robert Goonan, 34, on charges related to the attack.
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