US man says he set fire to congressman’s office over TikTok ban

Prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman’s office because he was upset with the federal TikTok ban with multiple counts on Wednesday, including arson.

Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney filed a complaint against 19-year-old Caiden Stachowicz charging him with felony arson, making terrorist threats, attempted burglary and property damage.

He would face more than 50 years behind bars if convicted on all counts.

Stachowicz, of Menasha, was scheduled to make his initial court appearance Wednesday morning. Online court records did not list a lawyer for him.

According to the complaint, a police officer responded to a fire outside Republican US congressman Glenn Grothman’s Fond du Lac office at around 1am on Sunday and saw Stachowicz standing nearby.

The officer said that as he worked to put out the flames with his extinguisher, Stachowicz told him that he started the fire because he does not like Grothman.