Ex-Northridge resident charged for setting fireplace at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ workplace

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A person was charged Sunday, April 7, with setting a hearth outdoors the Vermont workplace of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors stated.

Shant Soghomonian, 35, who was beforehand of Northridge, entered the constructing on Friday and went to Sanders’ third-floor workplace the place safety video exhibits him spraying a liquid on the door and setting it afire, officers stated.

The constructing’s inside suffered some harm from the fireplace and sprinklers that doused the world with water, however nobody was harm.

Sanders, an impartial, was not within the workplace.

Senator Bernie Sanders joins placing staff at Hotel Figueroa in downtown L.A.

Soghomonian was arrested Sunday on a cost of utilizing fireplace to wreck a constructing utilized in interstate commerce, in keeping with an announcement from Nikolas Kerest, the U.S. legal professional for Vermont.

The motive remained unclear.

The crime carries a most penalty of 20 years in jail and a fantastic of as much as $250,000.

The case was investigated by police departments in Burlington, Shelburne and Williston; Vermont State Police; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and U.S. Capitol Police, officers stated.