A transgender teenager accused of firebombing two Tesla Cybertrucks faces spending the remainder of his youth behind bars thanks to very harsh federal charges.

Owen McIntire, 19, is staring down 30 years in prison for the March 17 Molotov cocktail attack on two of the EVs at a Tesla dealership in his native Kansas City.

The teen, who was receiving so-called gender-affirming care at the time of the attacks, has denied federal charges of malicious destruction of property and unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device.

One charge carries with it a mandatory five years in prison, and he could spend 30 years behind bars if found guilty on all counts. He'd be 49 on release if the maximum sentence was imposed.

McIntire's case was elevated to the Department of Justice's national security division after what Attorney General Pam Bondi described as a wave of domestic terrorism.

In announcing McIntire's arrest in April, Bondi said: 'Let me be extremely clear to anyone who still wants to firebomb a Tesla property: you will not evade us.

'You will be arrested. You will be prosecuted. You will spend decades behind bars. It is not worth it.'

Tesla dealerships and vehicles were subjected to attacks due to CEO Elon Musk being a close ally of President Donald Trump, with Bondi vowing to pursue harsh charges against suspects to send a message.

Musk helped engineer a massive downsizing of the federal government and purge of employees earlier this year before stepping away from his role.

President Trump even came forward and said he considered acts of vandalism against Tesla as being 'terrorism'.


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