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January 5, 2021 3:32 PM Emily Oliver
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SPOKANE, Wash. The man accused of setting fire to the Spokane Democrats Office in December has been indicted on federal charges, U.S. Attorney William D. Hyslop said Tuesday.
Spokane Police and Bomb Squad members rushed to the Teamsters building in early December for reports of a bomb threat. They later identified Peter Yeager, 45, as the suspect.
Documents show Yeager drove all the way from Grand Coulee with a plan to burn down the Spokane Democrats Office. Police say Yeager entered the building with items resembling a bomb (such as wires sticking out of a backpack), and threatened to blow the place up. They later learned he did not actually have an explosive, though he was carrying gasoline, oil, a camping lighter, and toilet paper, which investigators say he used to spark a fire in the offices.
Courtesy of Joe Kuhn Joe Kuhn, who was a Marine, recounts his encounter with an arsonist: He was very focused. That s what worried me about him. I
t was like a bomb had gone off. When Joe Kuhn returned to what remained of the Spokane County Democrats offices in the Teamsters Building last Thursday, he was shocked by the sheer amount of damage. Flames had peeled paint off the doors. Ceiling tiles had collapsed. The copy machine had melted from the intensity of the heat. It was destroyed. The whole inside was gutted, says Kuhn, a 56-year-old Teamster. This guy clearly intended to burn the whole building down. He wasn t just trying to torch the office.
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On Wednesday morning, a suspect walked into the Teamsters building on Indiana and Division carrying a device that he claimed was a bomb. A witness reported the man handing her a manifesto that appeared to be filled with political remarks. The building houses the Spokane County Democrats. The suspect was taken into custody and the situation is currently under investigation. Stay tuned for updates on this story.
UPDATE: DEC. 11 AT 5 A.M.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has organized a Zoom call for Friday at 5:15 p.m. following the bomb threat at the Spokane Teamsters building. As you may have read in the Washington Post, yesterday there was a terrible incident at the Spokane County Democrats headquarters located in the Teamsters building, the Facebook event says. A man threatened to detonate a bomb inside their headquarters and then proceeded to set the office on fire. The Spokane County Democrats lost their supplies and nearly the entirety of their office in the
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