SURPRISE, AZ (AZFamily) — A 19-year-old man is facing federal charges after prosecutors say he tried to set fire to a building owned by the Department of Homeland Security in Surprise earlier this year.
Gabriel Mendoza-Acoltzi of Avondale was arrested May 7 following a federal grand jury indictment. He’s charged with malicious damage to federal property and willful depredation against property of the United States.
The incident happened just after 1 a.m. on February 21. Prosecutors say Mendoza-Acoltzi broke a window at the ICE building in Surprise and tried to set it on fire…