Arson plain and simple. They should be charged with murder 1 for any deaths, and all 8 million in damages....not just the one guy who fired the shot but everyone involved in setting up the firebomb.

They went to a bone dry field of brush to create an explosion in the middle of waist high dead grass without clearing the fuel from the site and without bringing any fire suppression equipment, not even a wet towel, that makes it intentional arson....or a case of being too dumb to be allowed to live.

No reasonable person could NOT foresee that a huge tannerite explosion in a <2% humidity field of fuel would start a fire, and running away without even trying to put it out makes it again 100% intentional.
This moron and his family should just be harvested for organs, it's the closest they could get to actual restitution. This $500 a month nonsense is outrageous. 100% of the family's assets should be forfeited, including houses, cars, pensions, anything of value...and left with < $1500 a month from his salary....a fourth year agent makes an average of $125000 a year plus 64 days of paid time off, family health and life insurance, retirement starting at 50 with full benefits, employer matched savings, pension, etc. $500 a month ($6000 a year) is insulting and not even noticeable to his finances considering his salary, $5000 a month isn't enough, and would still leave him with $65000per year + all those benefits....not to mention whatever his wife brings in. That's absolutely outrageous. I feel like restitution of $100000 a year until it's fully paid off is being generous considering the damage he caused.
Side note, this is the level of intelligence the border control agency accepts. We need an IQ minimum for public servants, I'm pissed one penny of my tax dollars go to pay brain dead slugs like him, and that total morons like him are armed and given authority is asinine.

His plea agreement was to pay $100,000 up front and $500 month for two decades for a total of 220,000. It also says he will pay the full 8 million. Not sure how it actually all works but sure am happy he has to pay something.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/duty-border-patrol-agent-pleads-guilty-starting-2017-sawmill-fire-and-ordered-pay-more-8

https://www.newsweek.com/border-patrol-wildfire-sawmill-gender-reveal-party-tannerite-dennis-dickey-1145272

That's my guess. Still, could be 20 lbs of tannerite and smokeless powder which would make shooting the car a bad idea.

Also, we may yet find out that the "explosives" were no more than reloading powder and/or tannerite shooting targets that he had lying around his car.

-scheherazade

Tannerite;)

...do you mean Tannerite?
Thermite is a burning compound, not an explosive compound.

well it looks like the video title includes the reaction (NH4)2Cr2O7 + Hg(SCN)2

so

Mercury (II) thiocyanate and Ammonium dichromate


make some Tannerite instead... its legal to posses the components because we're at war with terrorists or something...

The oxidizer is a mixture of 85% 200-mesh ammonium nitrate and 0–15% ammonium perchlorate...the catalyst is a mixture of 90% 600-mesh dark flake aluminium powder, 5% 325-mesh titanium sponge and 5% 200-mesh zirconium hydroxide... ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder work too.

thanks to Amazon.com and Google.com, you too can blow up many things.

They probably were shooting at some tannerite on or in the microwave-I'd guess that's the door of the thing that went sailing..Always wear a safety helmet or shoot from behind an enclosure or something....geez!

They use tannerite....this explosion was not fake, it simply confounds you that someone would be so careless or foolhardy-Your mind has deceived you.

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That quotient becomes irrelevant to the adrenal junkie. Above average digits are sometimes an indicator that someone is not only extremely intelligent, but and in MANY cases, batshit fucking "insane" or difficult to codify in the very least.

He's smart enough to make a fat enough stack of cabbage from his You Tube channels to afford all that hi-cal ammo and tannerite, play all day long and blow shit up to feed that monkey!

Not to mention the straaange following him around everywhere...The guy no-doubt attracts a lotta tail!

Now we know: 4lbs of tannerite in the shitter, 13lbs in the car.

@R-Watts

He prepares many of his targets with tannerite and even uploaded a detailed description of the process a while back.

He's shooting at targets loaded with tannerite - the rounds he's using are not explosive in any way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannerite

He's not real - I think he's CG!

>> ^BoneRemake:

waddaya mean fake ?