Suspect Who Rammed Vehicle DHS Building in Idaho Has Been Identified..and You Cannot Make This Up
Scott had the story first:
a deranged person tried to ram into a DHS building in Idaho last week.
This individual stole an ambulance and filled it with gasoline cans:
Local police said that someone stole the ambulance from
St. Luke's and drove it into the North Portico building that was leased
to DHS.
The suspect dumped gasoline in and around the ambulance
but couldn't ignite the accelerant before law enforcement arrived and
the suspect ran away.
The gas cans were reportedly stowed in vegetation near the building.
#BREAKING: Suspect rammed stolen, gas-filled ambulance into Idaho federal building in attempted terror attack targeting DHS agents.
And the suspect is a white 'Karen' named Sarah George, 43 (via Idaho Statesman):
BREAKING:
Woman in Boise, Idaho arrested after allegedly intentionally crashing
into a DHS building with gas cans to try to burn it down pic.twitter.com/vArvj9BtQi
Federal
prosecutors are calling an Idaho woman’s alleged decision to steal an
ambulance and crash it into a Meridian building leasing office space to
immigration officials a “brazen, dangerous, unprovoked, premeditated
attack,” according to newly released court records.
In a 15-page
affidavit, investigators outlined the evidence that local and federal
law enforcement agencies collected against Sarah George, 43, of Boise,
before arresting her Monday. Over the course of five days, officers
located surveillance footage, financial records and social media posts
that they say prove George purchased gasoline cans and lighter fluid,
filled them with fuel and stole a Canyon County ambulance before
crashing it into the Portico North building with the intention of
setting it on fire.
The building, owned by St. Luke’s Health
System, included office space that was being leased to the Department of
Homeland Security, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Posts
on George’s Facebook page had “adverse political positions” against the
agencies, the affidavit alleged. Assistant United States Attorney David
Robins, in the District of Idaho, said the attack wasn’t random. He
wrote in a motion arguing that George should be held “in custody” that
based on the woman’s social media posts, the attack was over her
“perceived grievances” of law enforcement.
[…]
Footage
from inside the ambulance showed she parked it in a lot near the
hospital to load at least two gasoline cans and a plastic Walmart bag,
which contained lighter fluid, the affidavit said. Investigators said
the items were “stashed” behind bushes on the edge of the parking lot.
Minutes later, surveillance footage from inside the lobby of Portico
North showed George exiting the ambulance, grabbing the gasoline and
pouring it around the lobby floor, according to the affidavit. She
wasn’t able to ignite a fire “before being scared off by responding
agencies,” Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea told the media last
week.
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