Arsonist who attempted to firebomb Oakland federal building, UC Berkeley police car pleads guilty

A 34-year-old Oakland resident pleaded guilty to arson charges for attempting last year to firebomb a federal building in Oakland and admitted to setting several fires at the UC Berkeley campus in the same month, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Casey Robert Goonan set fires and placed explosives on federal and university property on multiple occasions in a professed act of retaliation against the federal government and UC administration over the war in Gaza, authorities said.