FBI launches task force to nail criminals behind fiery Tesla attacks: ‘Domestic terrorism’

The FBI launched a task unit Monday to effort to nail the criminals mounting occurrence to Tesla vehicles and charging stations — calling the acts “domestic terrorism” and eying an anarchy blog calling for more.

The bureau has received reports of 48 instances truthful acold this period related to Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations and is investigating astatine slightest 7 of them successful conjunction with section instrumentality enforcement, The Post has learned.

The agency’s recently formed 10-person taskforce volition deploy ATF unit — oregon peculiar agents and quality analysts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives successful the Treasury Department — and unit from the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, including its Domestic Terrorism Operations Section and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

ATF is besides embedding unit successful FBI tract offices starting with San Antonio, Texas, wherever immoderate of the Molotov cocktail attacks person been carried out.

President Trump has vowed to beryllium pugnacious connected the convulsive vandals down the cross-country attacks targeting billionaire buddy and advisor Elon Musk’s company.

He precocious suggested sending the criminals to service 20-year jailhouse sentences successful El Salvador, wherever the US precocious rented retired a situation for deported amerciable alleged pack members.

The FBI is treating the attacks arsenic “domestic terrorism” and tracking radical who endanger to transportation retired vandalism connected the electric-vehicle institution arsenic portion of a revenge crippled connected Musk’s authorities involution arsenic caput of the arguable Department of Government Efficiency.

“[FBI] Director [Kash] Patel has been unequivocally clear: The FBI volition beryllium relentless successful its ngo to support the American people,” an bureau rep told The Post. “Acts of violence, vandalism, and home coercion — similar the caller Tesla attacks — volition beryllium pursued with the afloat unit of the law.”

Three radical person been arrested truthful acold for immoderate of the attacks, which progressive lighting Tesla cars and charging stations connected fire. US Attorney General Pam Bondi has besides labeled the cases “domestic terrorism” and stressed that the individuals are facing up to 20 years successful prison.

The FBI is looking implicit information camera footage and has gotten entree to cell-phone locations for immoderate of the unsolved cases.

The incidents truthful acold include: a Tesla Cybertruck being lit connected occurrence successful a retention batch successful Seattle, Wash.; 7 Tesla charging stations acceptable ablaze successful Littleton, Mass; Tesla vehicles acceptable connected occurrence with 2 Molotov cocktails successful Austin, Texas; Tesla vehicles being changeable astatine and lit connected occurrence with Molotov cocktails successful Las Vegas, Nev.; a Tesla dealership being changeable astatine successful Tigard, Ore.; 2 Molotov cocktails targeting Cybertrucks successful Kansas City, Mo.; a charging presumption being damaged with drilled holes successful Seattle, Ore.; a Tesla dealership and vehicles being spray-painted with “F–k Nazi Scum” and “F–k Nazis” successful San Diego, Calif., and a artillery presumption being acceptable connected occurrence and spray-painted with “BURN NAZI CAR KILL ELON” successful Seattle, Ore.

The bureau besides is looking into an anarchist blog being tally retired of Salt Lake City, Utah, and tracking a wide protestation called “Tesla Takedown” scheduled for March 29 calling for 500 demonstrations astatine Tesla showrooms and charging stations.

In summation ,the FBI identified the tract Dogeque.st that has accusation doxxing Tesla employees and locations crossed the state and being tally retired of the African state of Sao Tome.

“These attacks intelligibly conscionable the FBI’s established explanation of home terrorism,” said Rob Chadwick, a erstwhile FBI supervisory peculiar cause and manager of acquisition and grooming astatine the US Concealed Carry Association, to The Post.

“We’re talking astir coordinated, convulsive acts targeting a circumstantial company, motivated by ideological beliefs — whether environmental, political, oregon social,” helium said. “The FBI defines home coercion arsenic violent, transgression acts committed by individuals oregon groups wrong the United States, motivated by home ideological goals, to intimidate oregon coerce a civilian colonisation oregon power authorities policy.

“These are ideologically driven attacks meant to intimidate — and that puts them squarely successful the FBI’s crosshairs. Those breaking the instrumentality oregon utilizing unit to intimidate others volition consciousness the afloat value of the justness system.”