A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging an East Bay man with firebombing a University of California Police Department (UCPD) patrol car, announced U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey for the Northern District of California and FBI San Francisco Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp.
According to the indictment, on June 1, 2024, Casey Robert Goonan, 34, of Oakland and Pleasant Hill, went to the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
He was carrying a reusable shopping bag that contained six explosive devices commonly known as Molotov cocktails.
Goonan then kicked the shopping bag underneath the fuel tank of a marked UCPD patrol vehicle and ignited the Molotov cocktails
