Remember last week when someone threw a bunch of Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership and set a ton of cars on fire?
Well, they finally made an arrest in that case, and it's — okay, honestly, it's sort of exactly who you'd expect:
Paul Hyon Kim, 36, faces charges in connection with the March 18 attack in both state and federal court in Nevada. Kim was being held in the custody of the federal government.
In state court, Kim is facing charges of arson, possession of an explosive device and firing a weapon into a vehicle, Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a news conference.
Kim's profession is listed as a cinematographer/videographer. His website describes him as "going all across the West Coast to help tell his client's [sic] stories."
For a broad overview of how the police tracked down their man, you can see the fascinating details at a press conference law enforcement held this week:
A criminal complaint filed in federal court reveals that police used "area cellular tower information dumps" to help track the suspect; police also conducted a one-month review of a nearby license plate reader, which led them to Kim's Hyundai which matched the suspect's vehicle.
The perp was also seen at the Tesla dealership shooting security cameras with 300 blackout ammo:
Police were eventually able to recover ammunition of that variety at Kim's apartment.
Investigators eventually made contact with Kim before he was apparently preparing to leave the state. Pressed on inconsistencies in his statements to law enforcement, Kim demanded a lawyer; he was arrested soon after.
It's some great police detail work. You can't overstate how good these guys often are at their jobs.
Among the voluminous details police uncovered in their investigation was a pretty key piece of information:
A preliminary assessment of the suspect's social media activity indicates some very loose but self-proclaimed ties to the Communist Party USA social media group, as well as social media groups called Revolutionary Communist International, Hidden Palestine, Palestine Action, and a variety of other social media groups.
The fellow was also reportedly involved in a far-left gun organization:
Kim has an Instagram page where he follows the Socialist Rifle Association's page. In a post from October 2018, on the Reno Socialist Rifle Association's Instagram page, is a picture of a subject that appears to be Paul Kim training with firearms.
The suspect's association with extremist far-left outfits perhaps shouldn't be surprising, given that he allegedly, you know, firebombed a car dealership over politics — and tagged the dealership with a classic left-wing slogan in the process:
And this radicalism doesn't appear to be newfound. The suspect in 2020 posted a video to Facebook of some George Floyd-related riots in which he claimed that police "are less like guardians and more like attack dogs on a leash," and that Asians "owe [black people] a debt in blood, whether or not we like it."
According to the Department of Justice, Kim is facing up to 30 years in prison over the charges.
As one officer put it this week:
The self-righteous mob that's cheering you on today to commit acts of violence on their behalf will leave you high and dry and forget about you tomorrow. You and you alone will be held responsible and face the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence.
Looks like one communist terrorist is finding this out the hard way!
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