{"id":176584,"date":"2026-03-03T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176584\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:09:08","slug":"florida-man-to-be-sentenced-in-arson-and-terrorism-case-at-msp-sault-ste-marie-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176584\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man to be sentenced in arson and terrorism case at MSP Sault Ste. Marie Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; The man accused of setting fire to multiple patrol vehicles at the Michigan State Police Sault Ste. Marie post back in September of 2023 will learn his fate at a sentencing later this month.<\/p>\n<p>James Itani, 39 of Orlando, Florida, was charged with terrorism, third-degree arson and several counts of assault with intent to murder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Itani, 39 of Orlando, Florida, was charged with terrorism, third-degree arson and several counts of assault with intent to murder. (Chippewa County Jail)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0829c5f4-807e-4b1e-b500-c67cab999b99-MSParsonMUG.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>James Itani, 39 of Orlando, Florida, was charged with terrorism, third-degree arson and several counts of assault with intent to murder. (Chippewa County Jail)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upnorthlive.com\/news\/local\/suspect-arrested-after-vehicles-set-on-fire-at-state-police-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">It stems from a situation<\/a> where police say Itani doused patrol vehicles with gasoline and set them on fire before using a rifle to shoot at the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the next day, a search warrant was executed at a home and a shoot-out ensued.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This screenshot from security camera footage shows a man firing a rifle at vehicles at the Michigan State Police Sault Ste. Marie Post on Sept. 6, 2023. (Michigan State Police)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1988182f-72ba-4560-9da6-acdbdfb97b52-large16x9_F5V3s3MWMAAtyAC.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This screenshot from security camera footage shows a man firing a rifle at vehicles at the Michigan State Police Sault Ste. Marie Post on Sept. 6, 2023. (Michigan State Police)<\/p>\n<p>Itani was hospitalized and no officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Itani will appear for sentencing in the 50th Circuit Court in Sault Ste. Marie on March 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; The man accused of setting fire to multiple patrol vehicles at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-176584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}