(BCN) — An East Bay man pleaded responsible Tuesday to federal arson fees associated to a collection of firebombings in Oakland and Berkeley final summer time, the U.S. Division of Justice introduced.
Casey Goonan, 34, of Oakland and Nice Hill, arrived on the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Constructing in Oakland on June 11, 2024, carrying a bag of Molotov cocktails, prosecutors mentioned.
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Goonan wished to throw the explosive gadgets into the constructing, so he threw rocks at it, hoping to interrupt a window. His plan was thwarted by the arrival of officers, however he positioned the explosives in a planter in conjunction with the constructing and lit them on fireplace.
Goonan additionally admitted to placing a bag of Molotov cocktails beneath a gasoline tank of a College of California, Berkeley Police Division cruiser on June 1, 2024. He lit the bag on fireplace and fled because the automobile ignited, in line with prosecutors.
Casey Robert Goonan igniting a bag of six Molotov cocktails beneath a UCPD patrol automobile on June 1, 2024. (Photograph: U.S. DA Ismail J. Ramsey’s Workplace)
Along with these two assaults, Goonan additionally admitted to setting different fires on the UC Berkeley campus on June 1, June 13, and June 16, 2024.
Goonan mentioned he carried out these assaults to “influence and affect the conduct of governments by intimidation and coercion and to retaliate against the governments of the United States and the State of California for their conduct,” the DOJ mentioned.
Goonan pleaded responsible to 1 depend of maliciously damaging or destroying property by way of fireplace or an explosive with a terrorism enhancement.
Goonan, who has been in custody since being arrested, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 8, 2025, and is dealing with as much as 20 years in federal jail.
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