Federal authorities arrested a man for throwing an improvised explosive device at a downtown Los Angeles federal building Monday morning, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Jose F. Jovel, 54, was taken into custody after an incident at around 8 a.m., in which an individual tossed a Molotov cocktail-style firebomb at the front of the federal building at 300 N. Los Angeles St., officials said.<\/p>\n
Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman, said the bureau is investigating that attack and that no one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles firefighters responded to the federal building around 8:30 a.m., and a hazmat unit assessed a liquid at the scene and rendered it safe. <\/p>\n
Jovel is also under investigation for a suspected arson in the 100 block of North Westmoreland Avenue that occurred around 4 a.m. <\/p>\n
According to law enforcement sources, Jovel, a U.S. citizen, lives at that address and is expected to be charged Tuesday by the U.S. attorney\u2019s office with arson and explosive-related offenses.<\/p>\n
The federal building houses federal immigration services and has been targeted by protesters in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal authorities arrested a man for throwing an improvised explosive device at a downtown Los Angeles federal building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2640,10862,40212,45287,45285,4456,45284,48,52,51,45288,14425,47,50,49,63,45289,45286,346,3335,12856],"class_list":["post-78550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-a-m","tag-arson-suspect","tag-downtown-federal-building","tag-explosive-related-offense","tag-firebomb","tag-incident","tag-jovel","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-laura-eimiller","tag-law-enforcement-source","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-molotov-cocktail-style-firebomb","tag-n-los-angeles-st","tag-office","tag-official","tag-u-s-citizen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}