{"id":140805,"date":"2026-02-21T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140805\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:41:07","slug":"new-york-man-carrying-explosives-weapons-targets-power-substation-outside-boulder-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140805\/","title":{"rendered":"New York man carrying explosives, weapons targets power substation outside Boulder City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas (KSNV) \u2014 The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI are investigating a counterterrorism incident <\/a>that occurred outside Boulder City on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The incident was reported around 10 a.m. when Boulder City dispatch received a 911 call stating that a vehicle had crashed through a secured gate at a substation. The caller also mentioned that the driver appeared deceased and that gunshots had been heard after the crash, according to Sheriff Kevin McMahill.<\/p>\n

Officers responded and found a silver Nissan Sentra stopped against large industrial wire reels. <\/p>\n

Inside the vehicle, they observed a deceased individual wearing soft body armor and holding a shotgun in the driver’s seat, with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Multiple firearms were also visible inside the car, McMahill stated.<\/p>\n

The driver was later identified as 23-year-old Dawson Maloney from Albany, New York. Authorities coordinated with the Albany Police Department, learning that Maloney had been reported missing and had communicated with his family before the incident. <\/p>\n

According to police, Maloney made several statements indicating thoughts of self-harm and alluding to committing an act that would place him “on the news.”<\/p>\n

The sheriff highlighted a message Maloney had sent to his mother, in which he referred to himself as a “dead terrorist son” and expressed a sense of obligation to carry out his act.<\/p>\n

Police confirmed that Maloney traveled from New York to Nevada in a rental car, and his travel path was later documented. A search warrant was executed at the motel where he was staying, leading investigators to find multiple books related to extremist ideologies, including left- and right-wing extremism, environmental extremism, white supremacy, and anti-government sentiment. Explosive materials were also discovered.<\/p>\n

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Inside the vehicle, investigators located two shotguns, an AR-style pistol, numerous loaded AR magazines, a box of shotgun shells, two devices described as flamethrowers containing thermite material, a crowbar, a hatchet, and a cellphone. <\/p>\n

Given the findings and the location, officials are treating the incident as terrorism-related, although the specific reason for targeting this substation remains unknown, McMahill noted. <\/p>\n

He also emphasized that there is currently no ongoing threat to the public at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas (KSNV) \u2014 The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI are investigating a counterterrorism incident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-140805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}