Wisconsin Man Gets Prison For Setting Fire To Congressman’s Office | EUROtoday

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who allegedly informed police he tried to set fireplace to a Republican congressman’s workplace final yr as a result of he was indignant that the lawmaker backed a invoice requiring TikTookay’s Chinese proprietor to dump its U.S. operations was sentenced Thursday to seven years in jail.

In addition to the jail time, Fond du Lac County Circuit Judge Tricia Walker sentenced 20-year-old Caiden Stachowicz to seven years of prolonged supervision, courtroom data present.

Stachowicz, of Menasha, pleaded no contest to an arson cost in November. Prosecutors dropped housebreaking and property harm counts in trade for Stachowicz’s no contest plea, which isn’t an request for forgiveness however is handled as such for the needs of sentencing.

Stachowicz’s lawyer, Timothy Hogan, didn’t instantly reply to a message looking for remark.

According to a prison grievance, a police officer responded to a fireplace exterior Republican U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman’s workplace in Fond du Lac, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee, at round 1 a.m. on Jan. 19, 2025, and noticed Stachowicz standing close by.

He informed the officer that he began the hearth as a result of he doesn’t like Grothman, in response to the grievance. He initially deliberate to interrupt into the workplace and begin the hearth inside however he couldn’t break the window, so he poured gasoline on {an electrical} field behind the constructing and across the entrance of the constructing, lit a match and watched it burn, in response to the grievance.

He mentioned he needed to burn down the workplace as a result of the federal authorities was shutting down TikTookay in violation of his constitutional rights and peace was not longer an choice, the grievance states. He added that Grothman voted for the shutdown, however he didn’t need to harm Grothman or anybody else.

Grothman voted for a invoice in April 2024 that required TikTookay’s China-based firm, ByteDance, to promote its U.S. operation. The deadline was Jan. 19, 2025, however President Donald Trump has issued a number of government orders prolonging it. TikTookay finalized a deal two months in the past to create an American model of of the social video platform. Trump praised the deal.

A spokesperson for Grothman’s congressional workplace didn’t instantly reply to a message looking for remark.