Five days after the Chinese Consulate was torched by a person seen pouring two buckets of gasoline on the San Francisco building, the FBI announced the arrest of a 39-year-old Daly City man in connection with the blaze.
The FBI named Yan Feng as the person agents arrested following the Jan. 1 blaze at 1450 Laguna Street in the city's Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood. Feng self-surrendered to Daly City police by calling them on Friday, according to the FBI.
Special agent in charge David Johnson said authorities do not believe there are any ties to terrorism, and that the explosion was "an isolated incident."
The FBI did not state any possible motive for why Feng - a Chinese national but a permanent U.S. resident - would have allegedly set the fire. The minivan that was seen in security video outside the building the night of the fire has been recovered, agent said.
Feng faces charges of damages property belong to a foreign establishment and arson.
(01-06) 12:22 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A Daly City man has been arrested in connection with last week's arson attack at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, which turned out to be unrelated to politics, the FBI said Monday.
Agency officials said Nan Yeng, 35, called authorities on Friday and soon turned himself in at Daly City's police headquarters. He was subsequently arrested on suspicion of two federal charges, arson and damaging the property of a foreign government.
The FBI declined to comment on Yeng's alleged motive, but said it had nothing to do with terrorism, politics or civil rights.
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发表于 2014-1-6 14:11:48
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