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(NewsNation) — A Minnesota antheral volition nary longer beryllium criminally charged for allegedly vandalizing six Tesla vehicles.
Authorities accidental Dylan Adams, a 33-year-old authorities employee, was seen connected camera causing astir $20,000 successful harm to the vehicles by keying them. Adams was aboriginal arrested and could person faced felony charges, but the Hennepin County Attorney said they would alternatively springiness him the enactment of participating successful a diversion program.
The transgression has been portion of a increasing inclination of Teslas being targeted by vandals successful protestation of CEO Elon Musk's involvement successful the national government.
The Minnesota Police Brass expressed their outrage implicit the determination not to prosecute Adams' case, saying their detectives did hard enactment connected the lawsuit and are near wondering what it was worth.
They accidental the grounds against Adams is overwhelming, with aggregate videos from each Tesla vehicle's 360-degree surveillance camera appearing to amusement him attack and effort to cardinal them.
The region lawyer stated that the diversion programme suggested to Adams volition alteration him to clasp his authorities employment and larn from his mistakes without facing jailhouse time.
"Our investigators are ever frustrated erstwhile the cases they poured their hearts into are declined," Minneapolis Police Department Chief Brian O'Hara said successful a statement. "In my experience, the victims successful these cases often consciousness the same."
There is present a statement connected whether U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi volition measurement successful to prosecute much cases of Tesla vandalism. For the past month, Bondi has charged three vandals with home coercion successful cases from Oregon, Colorado and South Carolina.
The determination to not property charges has besides received backlash from assemblage members, immoderate of whom took to the Hennepin County Facebook leafage and said they hoped national prosecutors instrumentality implicit the case.
The Hennepin County lawyer said they volition inactive permission the doorway unfastened for transgression charges if Adams continues to interruption the law. They accidental diversion programs are a bully mode to unafraid restitution and clasp Adams accountable portion reducing the likelihood of him offending again.
