{"id":514016,"date":"2026-01-13T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/514016\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:55:12","slug":"teen-arson-suspect-faces-new-terrorism-charges-after-string-of-social-media-videos-fort-worth-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/514016\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arson suspect faces new terrorism charges after string of social media videos, Fort Worth police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An arson suspect faces new terrorism charges after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Fort Worth<\/a> police linked a series of threatening social media videos to a string of car fires south of downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the investigation expanded after threatening videos began circulating online, including one showing a masked man vowing mass violence. Detectives believe the video originated overseas from an extremist hate group.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say five vehicles were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/arson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">set ablaze<\/a> between Christmas Eve and New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe 17-year-old Evan Banda recorded footage of North Texas schools and sent it overseas to the extremist group, which posted the threatening videos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Banda was arrested last week and charged with arson, terrorism, and possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/evanbanda.png#.png\" alt=\"evanbanda.png \" height=\"675\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Evan Banda, 17<\/p>\n<p>                Tarrant County Jail<\/p>\n<p>  Fort Worth school footage among online posts<\/p>\n<p>As officers monitored related posts, they found additional threatening messages and footage of Crowley Middle School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth Police Department&#8217;s Arson Unit determined the threats were connected to five arson\u2011related videos recorded on the city&#8217;s south side.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation remains active<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide additional details as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arson suspect faces new terrorism charges after Fort Worth police linked a series of threatening social media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":514017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,8339,7371,7372,8963,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-514016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arson","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-north-texas","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115890023608436546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}