Utah Man Arrested for Hurling Molotov Cocktail at Wells Fargo Branch
- Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:29pm by
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WEST JORDAN, Utah (The Blaze/AP) — Authorities say a Utah man has been arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at a Wells Fargo branch.
Police responded early Thursday morning in West Jordan, about 15 miles south of Salt Lake City. A bank window was cracked, but authorities say the device didn’t explode.
The man arrested is 20 years old. His name wasn’t released. Authorities say a bomb squad removed suspicious items from his car, but it wasn’t immediately clear if they were explosive.
KSL-TV has more:
Police say a man called them about 4:30 a.m. from the location, near 2640 W. 9000 South, making some sort of unspecified threat. When officers arrived, they began questioning a 20-year-old man who was sitting inside a car that was parked about 50 feet away from the bank building.
Officers also searched the vehicle and found evidence of a possible explosive, according to West Jordan Fire Battalion Chief Steve Holmes. He said the man is also accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a window of the bank, which cracked the glass but did not go inside of the building or cause any other damages.
West Jordan spokeswoman Kim Wells says the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have joined the investigation.
The threat comes on the same day Occupy protesters are marking the two-month anniversary of the movement. It wasn’t immediately clear if the Utah bomb was connected to the national protest.
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Comments (99)
JimL
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:22pmBio-fuel cocktail (tossed dressing).
Report Post »Putting indoctrination into action.
someonewhocares
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:57pmWhat an idiot that does no good.
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Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:59pmObama’s Occupy Army in action.
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:13pmThis guy is an idiot. 4:30 in the morning? Out in West Jordan (the burbs of SLC)? Either he’s trying to commit suicide by cop or wanted to be on TV. I’d put even money on him just having finished a couple lines of that synthetic cocaine and being absolutely out of it.
Report Post »Founding Father2
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:18pmWell Occupy called for it yesterday ( http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/nov/ows_cocktail_macys.html ) and the one calling for it was thrown in jail. Now someone else takes up the call and he has been thrown in the jail.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:51pmWelcome to Obamaville where the OBOTS run wild. Nancy Pelosi thanks god for these people
Report Post »White Gun Fodder
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:39pmCan Civilians Like TEA Shoot On Site Anyone Attempting To Throw A Molotov? A Molotov Is A Weapon Of Mass Destruction, A Bomb.
Throwing a Molotov is an act of terrorism just like setting off a bomb vest. The horror of being burned by gasoline and the property destruction demands a response of opening gun fire. Throwing a Molotov is an act of war, Publicly threatening to throw a Molotov or encouraging someone to do it is an act of Treason.
Report Post »White Gun Fodder
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:56pmHey Nepollitano, Read Me First.
Report Post »White Gun Fodder
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:01pmGlass Bottles Are Needed To Make Molotov. Any demonstrator transporting glass bottles should be arrested for attempting to set off bombs. If the bomb has gasoline in it and they resist, they should be shot dead. Our side should not be playing games with these people. Ever get a serious burn, its horrible.
Only TEA can save us now.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:27pm20 years old…. Now he can go occupy a prison with Bubba. These pieces of crap don’t know what they are headed for when they cross the line life this. They will make for perfect shower mates when they get to prison. Of course, you can’t rape the willing, but they will get it like they never known before. I can only hope..
Report Post »Kasey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:45pmWhite Gun Fodder, you smack of professional agitator for the left. Though these people are ******* me off, and plotting the overthrow of the government is technically treason, you can’t actually be serious about the bottles.
Shoot them dead if they resist? Open gun fire for destruction of property? I have news for you, genius, that’s not how TeaParty members thing.
If you’re not actually just trying to make people here look bad, then you genuinely are stupid.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:22pmIf he’s the guy who threw it, arrest him, grill him and then try him for attempted murder and every other crime that could possibly apply. Enough already with the “Mr. Nice Guy” stuff. They don’t care about us but they want their rights after the police arrive. Sorry – not interested. Protect the public from the animals first.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:12pmAbsolutely! It’s a shame the young lad was misguided but some time in the “general population” may serve to correct. If correction fails, too bad, there be another cell he can share with Jumbo Leeroy.
Report Post »White Gun Fodder
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:54pmWe Have The Right An Moral Obligation To Shoot On Site Anyone Making Or Throwing Molotov Gasoline Bombs.
A Molotov is a weapon of mass destruction that are designed to be used against military tanks and armored equipment. It explodes on impact. If these people are not killed like all terrorists, they will not fear anything and will escalate what they are doing.
Only TEA will save us now.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:19pmSlap him 5…….. ! This aint yo mommy’s 60s…
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:15pmWait till next year, when George Soros buys the OWS protesters all the beer and whiskey they can drink!
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:52pmOh, sounds like next summer will be a problem. You don’t want to mix fools with alcohol on a hot day
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:15pmSure you do. They just need something safe to occupy them. Maybe loading a front-end load industrial wood chipper?
Give them a couple days and the problem takes care of itself
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:06pmYes friends next year, who and what will determine the line between rich and poor, the so called 99%? Anyone that owns say…a house? They are certainly richer than the majority of the protesters, no? Who will they call JEW? Anyone with say, a business of any kind?
Report Post »crusader6
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:27pmYeah, especially when the Dems meet for their convention in Charlotte, NC (the home of Bank of America).
Report Post »grownup
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:22amThen Van Jones will step in to save the day?
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:13pmI bet the idiots they arrested in NY who was saying “wait till you see what Macy’s looks like with a Molotov Cocktail” will now get additional charges because he incited this guy to do this….
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:27pmThe FBI better have some undercover officers in these groups, they are violent terrorists.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:08pmCome November 2012, let’s not forget how Obama, Pelosi, etc. sided with the OWS crowd.
Obama’s lead-from-behind presidency endangers every man, woman, and child in this country.
If in November 2008 you voted FOR Obama out of a sense of guilt or pent-up shame, please vote against him in 2012 out of a sense of survival. He is the albatross around our country’s neck.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:56pmHere we go……..
Report Post »Thanks a lot president Damien…you have fundamentally transformed America into a New Romania or New Yugoslavia.
Without you, we never could have fallen so low.
ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:56pmSome seem to yawning at this like its an isolated event. Its not when you couple it with the overall mentality of greed out there for other peoples money. The pot is still only simmering! Its going full blown boil soon.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:11pmYou are so right Chief…I sure hope people are prepared for the mayhem to result…large cities will be no go zones, mdeium sized will be battle zones and rural areas will be skirmishes…ain’t Socialism GREAT?!
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:12pmThis boy was obviously a copycat of the jackass that threatened to do the same at macy’s in NY and was arrested for making terroristic threats! I think these clowns have had their 15 minutes of shame,enough already! bring in the water cannons and hose these slobs down!
Report Post »kenned
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:55pmThis guy has a car. Ergo he is not part of the OWL crowd.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:53pm.
Report Post »Stupid OWS people, you Chunk a Molotov Cocktail. Hurling is something you do after a hard night of drinking………
The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:51pmIf the bank was open, or had employees inside, he should be charged with attempted murder…end of story.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:58pmThey should take him out, blindfold him, and shoot him.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:02pmWhy waste a perfectly good blindfold.
Report Post »allredtail
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:10pmA Molotov Cocktail is a NFA weapon, same as a short barreled shotgun or a machinegun. If they charge him with that, he would be facing 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for a first offense.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:10pm@13th Imam:
Report Post »Sorry, I wasn’t thinking.
1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:46pmThrow the kid in a federal pen. It’s a federal crime if ya rob one. let emm occupy a cell with some lifers.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:59pmThe form of execution in Utah is by firing squad. Pretty neat.
Report Post »integrican
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:27pm@Dismayed Veteran
The firing squad is only a choice for the condemned.
The default execution method is Lethal Injection.
Both equally deadly, but the firing squad does have that old west feel to it, I agree.
TO ALL: Please be careful about your will to apply vicious vindication for these people. It won’t be long until we are officially labelled as enemies of the state, bringing us out back and shooting us just may happen. That is exactly what that madman with the funny mustache did back before and during WWII. Careful what you approve or deem necessary.
I am ready!!! I hope you all are too.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:51pm.
Report Post »We just better be glad they don’t arms like those Gaza kids. Someone could loose an eye…..
SilentReader
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:48pmOh, but of course, it’s not connected to the OWS obscene protests. It just couldn’t be! Even though I faintly recall another OWS useful idiot threatening to throw a molotov cocktail at Macy’s.
Of course there’s nothing to see there. Just move on. It‘s got absolutely nothing to do with the OWS mayhem that’s been allowed to go on for two months now. Unabated.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:44pmOWS has given every nut job in the country a green light.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:53pmThe more this grows the more folks get emboldened. Its just a matter of time before real chaos breaks out and I’ll wager that it will be inconjunction with our economic collapse. That will really fuel the fires that burn in the hearts of everyone concerned as those minding their own business will blame OWS for the collapse and it will be all out civil war. Get ready folks cause its coming.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:53pmThe GreenLight Button… is in the White House!
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:11pmHe is not part of OWS silly. He is probably a TEA Party guy, just like the schmuck who took a shot at the White House. OWS are all peaceful protesters. What’s wrong with you? Get with the program.
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:44pmDomestic terrorist with a lighted bomb…send him to GITMO….waterboard a few and see what radical anti-american connection they have…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:43pmOur cities are going to look like… Beirut… after their conflict! What a shame!
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:59pmonly cities with no carry permits !!!!
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:05pmIf the police do not do it. It will be the American people to stand up and protect their cities and homes. Run these idiots to the ground before they burn they burn everything to the ground.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:29pmAmerican cities like beirut? that would be another case of americaa’s chickens coming home to roost. Welcome to the 21stc -of people not regimes of even superpower regimes dictating to the world and it’s peoples.Go OWS go!
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:36pmrose-ellen
I’m trying to figure out just how you liberals get your cranium soooooooo firmly planted in your rectum? It must be the same genetics that cause all liberal women to be unattractive.
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:03pmBlackhawk1
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:36pm
rose-ellen
I’m trying to figure out just how you liberals get your cranium soooooooo firmly planted in your rectum? It must be the same genetics that cause all liberal women to be unattractive.
Report Post »_____
ha ha ha!!! lol!!!! she gets her berka all steamed up then as she starts running around trips on it and oopsie… head up the rectum… this is why the berkas are all black and brown in color… lol oopsie..
AvengerK
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:03pmBLACKHAWK…this is mild stuff for ROSE-ELLEN..she supports the beheadings, bombings, kidnappings..etc committed on civilians by terrorists throughout the middle east and elsewhere. She loves this type of violence. I dare say she gets almost to the point of arousal when she reads about another violent action by subversives.
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:41pmThese kids don’t realize the impact that these actions will have on their lives later on in life. Unless of course they decide to become full time radicals like Bill Ayers. It‘s really a shame because what they are doing and representing is attributed to what they’ve been taught for there whole lives so far. I feel sorry for them that they may never enjoy America the way it was meant to be.
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:42pm‘their whole lives’
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:43pmQuite oftem people do not fully appreciate something until they have lost what the took so casual before.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:47pmHe’ll get a professorship at Columbia in ten years.
Report Post »Ohio Girl
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:50pmI agree with you. None of these people are taking responsibility for their actions. It’s always someone elses fault never their own. That’s the problem. For every action there is a reaction so choose carefully.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:00pmThese kids are adults. You make choices, you reap the results. They may not realize what they’re doing in the long run because they are caught up in the frenzy. Later on is when they‘ll kick their selves and wish hadn’t done it. I‘m sure a lot of these are good young adults but I’m afraid they’re led by some dangerous individuals that need to have attention brought to them and then surgically removed.
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:04pmI guess he is on his way t becoming a full time radical.. then he can later become a full time teacher!
Report Post »branch manager
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:41pmThose darn teabaggers…eeerrrr…fleabaggers!!!
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:39pmPSSST….You have to light it first!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:54pmPlease no guidance!
Report Post »John Morton
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:19pmThe bottle was probably filled with his own urine, that‘s why it didn’t work- DUH!!!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:39pmMolotov cocktails have been served at the Greek protests for years. They are commonplace. They are generally innocuous, and just have a dramatic visual effect.
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:38pmAnd it begins, so much for peaceful protests of the OWSer’s. Of course it doesn‘t say that he was and I suspect we’ll never hear it form the mainstream media.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:40pmMolotov cocktails should only be used for important tasks, such as setting smelly, radical hippies on fire.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:36pmThe left had better be careful. Molotov cocktails can be easily made by anyone. They do not have the lone recipe.
Report Post »Just_Bubba
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:33pmA 250 watt light bulb works real well…at least that’s what I hear ;). We were better at wrecking crap than these pukes will ever be and we were just young teens looking for something to do out back in a field. Had things went south back in the late 60′s we were ready for the commies (and still are). Did they ever wonder what inspired Red Dawn? We still are WOLVERINES but we have time and $ now.
What is it they say about old age and treachery beating youth and exuberance EVERY time?
Too bad TV and Progressives have skewed this generation’s grasp of reality. BTW you stupid pukes, the laws in modern day are way more strick than back then thanks to the Patriot Act and others. An incendiary bomb will now get you hard time just for possesion, never mind actually performing a terrorist act with it.
Street justice is even more severe…if you don’t believe me, try burning something down out here in Bubba Land you little commie pukes
Report Post »ConstitutionalPatriot
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:35pm. . . and so it begins
I hope you dirty protesters are ready for the response
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:34pmI am sure the media will do everything they can to distance this fellow from the OWS movement even if his care is full of OWS propaganda and his pockets stuffes with pamphlets. Call him a ‘fringe element’. Anything to continue calling it a ‘peaceful protest’. Bah Humbug!
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:43pmThey will just say “God told him to do it” and make him sound like a conservative.
Report Post »Adam
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:31pmSomeone let Glenn know that I’m completely willing to work as an editor for The Blaze. (Check the title – “Well Fargo”)
Report Post »Charb
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:38pmI’m here, too. (Adam, perhaps someone from The Blaze has called you already, but missed a digit or two on the telephone?)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:38pmThey must have read your post Adam.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:41pmIT says WELLS FARGO. What`s wrong with you.signed the editor
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