Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury of Madison, Wis., is accused of firebombing an antiabortion office in the state. An Arby’s burrito led police to him.
At the crime scene in Madison, authorities found jars with pieces of clothing, inflammable liquid and burn marks. One of those jars had set fire to a row of books at the office of Wisconsin Family Action’s president, Julaine Appling, whothe attack. “People disagree with me all the time,” she told a local TV station. “I don’t go threaten them.”
On the exterior wall of the building, police found black graffiti in cursive that read, “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.”that officials filed to a federal court. One profile, that of a male, was obtained from window glass, the molotov cocktails and the ignition wheel of the purple lighter. The DNA didn’t match any in a federal database of convicted criminals.
In January, authorities caught a break. Police monitoring protests at the Wisconsin Capitol observed multiple individuals spraying graffiti on the Capitol grounds. Authorities saw that the graffiti “appeared to have some visual similarities” to the words spray-painted on the office of Wisconsin Family Action.
Police also noticed that the graffiti painters left the Capitol in a 2005 white Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that they later tracked to an address belonging to Roychowdhury in Madison. Authorities began following Roychowdhury.On March 1, authorities saw Roychowdhury stop the Toyota in a park-and-ride lot. After stepping out of the car, he threw away a brown bag containing a “partially eaten burrito wrapped in waxed paper.” DNA swabs on the burrito were sent to labs.
Law enforcement officials arrested Roychowdhury at Boston Logan International Airport on Tuesday, after he bought a one-way ticket to Guatemala. He was due for a detention hearing in Boston later that day.“Violence is never an acceptable way for anyone to express their views or their disagreement,” said Assistant FBI Director Robert R. Wells in a
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