FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) – An Arkansas man has been arrested on charges he tried
to blow up a car at the Pentagon. Matthew Dmitri Richardson of Fayetteville made
an initial appearance Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria,
Virginia, a day after his arrest. A federal complaint says a Pentagon police
officer saw the 19-year-old Richardson standing next to a car and using a
cigarette lighter to ignite a piece of fabric that he’d placed in the vehicle’s
gas tank. The complaint says Richardson said he was going to “blow this vehicle
up,” as well as himself. Richardson is being held pending a detention hearing
Thursday.
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