East Bay academic faces federal charges in firebombing of UC Berkeley police vehicle

A federal grand jury indicted an East Bay academic on charges of firebombing a University of California police patrol vehicle in Berkeley earlier this summer, according to federal officials.

Around 5 a.m. June 1, 34-year-old Casey Goonan, of Oakland and Pleasant Hill, went to UC Berkeley’s campus carrying a shopping back with six Molotov cocktails, kicked them underneath a police vehicle and ignited them, according to the indictment. The charges were announced Friday in a news release from Ismail J.