Overview
- Deputies responded to a Burson Drive residence around 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 28 after multiple Molotov cocktails were thrown and neighbors put out fires, with evidence and damage observed at the scene.
- Authorities identified the case as tied to ongoing online harassment of a minor, according to the Livingston County Sheriff's Office.
- Alex Buley-Neumar, 25, of Mount Pleasant was located and arrested through a joint effort by deputies, detectives, and Mount Pleasant police.
- He faces four felony counts: manufacturing or possessing a Molotov cocktail causing damage, aggravated stalking of a minor, using a computer to commit a crime, and accosting a child for immoral purposes.
- Buley-Neumar is being held in the Livingston County Jail on a $1 million cash or surety bond, and officials urged parents to closely monitor their children's social-media interactions.