{"id":136917,"date":"2025-11-03T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thencbeat.com\/?p=136917"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:16:59","slug":"richlands-nc-molotov-cocktail-vehicle-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/north-carolina-news\/richlands-nc-molotov-cocktail-vehicle-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Richlands Residents Charged After Molotov Cocktail Used To Damage Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"911\" data-end=\"1198\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/camp-lejeune-marine-arrested-kidnapping-12-year-old\/\"><em><strong>Onslow County<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0deputies say two <em>Richlands, <a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/tag\/north-carolina\">North Carolina<\/a><\/em>\u00a0residents were bold enough to use a Molotov cocktail to damage a vehicle. Authorities have now charged both suspects in what investigators describe as a serious act of incendiary property destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1518\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to the <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onslowcountync.gov\/sheriff\">Onslow County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em> 26-year-old <em><strong>Aaron S. Burkhardt<\/strong><\/em> and 33-year-old<strong><em> Briana P. Irizarry<\/em><\/strong>, both of <em>Richlands<\/em>, were arrested Friday, October 31. Court documents show the incident happened on <em>October 26<\/em> and involved a vehicle being hit with an incendiary explosive device \u2014 a Molotov cocktail.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136922\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5301-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136922 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5301-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Borkowski Richlands man arrested for using Molotov cocktail in vehicle arson attack in North Carolina\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron S. Burkhardt, 26, of Richlands, North Carolina, is accused of leading a Molotov cocktail attack on a vehicle, facing multiple felonies including two counts of malicious use of an incendiary device and one count of felony conspiracy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136924\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5303-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136924 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5303-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Edmonds Richlands woman charged with indecent liberties in Molotov cocktail arson case in North Carolina\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Briana P. Irizarry, 33, of Richlands, North Carolina, is charged with malicious use of an incendiary explosive device and felony conspiracy after allegedly helping ignite a Molotov cocktail that damaged a vehicle in Onslow County.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/manley-moore-arrested-jackson-nc\/\">Former Northwoods Park Middle School Teacher Arrested, Manley Moore Charged With 4 Indecent Liberties Counts<\/a><\/h1>\n<p data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"1698\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Aaron Burkhardt is charged with two counts of malicious use of an incendiary explosive device causing property damage and one count of felony conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1700\" data-end=\"1844\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Briana Irizarry faces one count of malicious use of an incendiary explosive device causing property damage and one count of felony conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1846\" data-end=\"1963\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Burkhardt is currently being held without bond, while Irizarry\u2019s bond is set at $20,000 secured, according to court documents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onslow County\u00a0deputies say two Richlands, North Carolina\u00a0residents were bold enough to use a Molotov cocktail to damage a vehicle. Authorities have now charged both suspects in what investigators describe as a serious act of incendiary property destruction. According to the Onslow County Sheriff\u2019s Office, 26-year-old Aaron S. Burkhardt and 33-year-old Briana P. Irizarry, both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7750,7751,7752,28,7753,7612,7754],"class_list":["post-136917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-news","tag-aaron-burkhardt","tag-briana-irizarry","tag-molotov-cocktail-attack","tag-north-carolina-news","tag-onslow-county-crime","tag-onslow-county-sheriffs-office","tag-richlands-nc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}