A man residing in Avondale, Gabriel Mendoza-Acoltzi, has been arrested after being indicted for attempting to set fire to a property owned by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Surprise, Arizona, in February.
According to the Department of Justice, a federal grand jury handed down an indictment charging the 19-year-old Mendoza-Acoltzi with Malicious Damage to Federal Property and Willful Depredation Against Property of the United States.
According to court documents, Mendoza-Acoltzi broke a window and attempted to light the building on fire just after 1 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2026.
Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael T. Morrissey granted the United States’ request that Mendoza-Acoltzi be detained pending further court proceedings.
According to court documents, a video camera in the area of the ICE property captured Mendoza-Acoltzi’s Honda Civic entering the parking lot around 12 am on Feb. 21. Mendoza-Acoltzi can be seen exiting the vehicle and placing a propane tank next to the ICE building. Later video shows Mendoza-Acoltzi swinging the propane tank at a window on the building, breaking the glass, and using a long torch connected to the tank to light the window shades inside the lobby on fire.
Video from the scene also shows Mendoza-Acoltizi moving between the sidewalk and the rock landscaping at the ICE property. When responding to the incident, investigators observed a profane anti-ICE message spelled out with landscaping rocks on the sidewalk.
Enough is enough. 10 years in prison would be nice. His people my brown foot.
Why did the news bury a picture of Gabriel Mendoza-Acoltzi?
Gabriel also admitted he knew that DHS had recently purchased the building and he wanted to stop DHS from “hurting his people.”
Gabriel said he decided one night to “go be Batman.
These people don’t belong here, they don’t see themselves as Americans.
Another lawless leftist