Man Crashes Weapons-Laden Vehicle Into Nevada Power Plant in Failed Extremist Attack

In the past 48 hours, authorities in Nevada are investigating what Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill describes as a counterterrorism incident outside Boulder City. On Thursday morning, 23-year-old Dawson Maloney from Albany, New York, crashed a rental car loaded with weapons through a secured gate at a power substation, where he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to police reports, the vehicle contained two shotguns, an AR-style pistol, loaded magazines, shotgun shells, flamethrowers with thermite, a crowbar, a hatchet, and explosive materials. Investigators discovered books on extremist ideologies—including left- and right-wing views, environmental extremism, white supremacy, and anti-government sentiment—in Maloney's motel room, along with components like ammonium nitrate and gasoline. In messages to his family, Maloney called himself a "dead terrorist son" and said he had an obligation to carry out the act to get on the news. The FBI is assisting, but officials confirm no infrastructure damage and no ongoing public threat, with the motive still under review. FOX 5 New York and KSNV echo these details from the sheriff's news conference Friday. No other confirmed terrorist threats or attacks have surfaced in the U.S. during this window, according to major outlets and federal alerts. Broader national security chatter remains quiet, with focus shifting to international cases like the U.S. State Department's monitoring of a French activist's killing potentially tied to radical left violence. Listeners, thank you for tuning in and please subscribe for more updates. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.