A suspect in connection to Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office fire has been arrested.
Shant Soghomonian, 35, also known as Michael Soghomonian from California, was arrested in connection to “using fire to damage a building” in Sanders’s office on a high-foot traffic street in Burlington, Vermont, the Department of JusticeAccording to court records, Soghomonian entered the building Friday morning and went to the floor where Sanders’ office is located.
The door frame was damaged, and sprinklers were triggered inside the building due to the fire. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they found “a fire in the vestibule between the elevator and the entrance door to office.”in response to the fire at my Vermont office on Friday,” A Sanders statement on the fire said. “I am also thankful that none of the many people who were in the office building at the time of the fire were injured.”.
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