Another felony charge was filed Friday related to the violence following Minnesota's NCAA hockey championship.
Eleven people were arrested -- seven of them university students -- during the melee April 12 that followed the Gophers' 5-1 win over New Hampshire in Buffalo, N.Y. The city had to send 100 police officers and 25 firefighters to restore order and put out fires, Mayor R.T. Rybak said.
Prosecutors charged Ahmad S. Samaha, an 18-year-old student at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, with second-degree arson. Samaha allegedly burned a car, which was flipped over and its gasoline tank ignited.
Charles H. Salter, assistant county attorney, said Samaha has not been taken into custody but is scheduled to appear in court next week.
Samaha is the second person charged with a felony. On Tuesday, Travis J. Hinck, 19, was charged after allegedly damaging a booking van from the inside. He was arrested after police said he threw a bottle at them.
Damage is expected to exceed the total from last year's violence, which caused nearly $40,000 in property damage after the Gophers won the title in St. Paul, Minn. Officials said this year's vandalism was more serious because it involved more fires -- about 65.
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Eleven people were arrested -- seven of them university students -- during the melee April 12 that followed the Gophers' 5-1 win over New Hampshire in Buffalo, N.Y. The city had to send 100 police officers and 25 firefighters to restore order and put out fires, Mayor R.T. Rybak said.
Prosecutors charged Ahmad S. Samaha, an 18-year-old student at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, with second-degree arson. Samaha allegedly burned a car, which was flipped over and its gasoline tank ignited.
Charles H. Salter, assistant county attorney, said Samaha has not been taken into custody but is scheduled to appear in court next week.
Samaha is the second person charged with a felony. On Tuesday, Travis J. Hinck, 19, was charged after allegedly damaging a booking van from the inside. He was arrested after police said he threw a bottle at them.
Damage is expected to exceed the total from last year's violence, which caused nearly $40,000 in property damage after the Gophers won the title in St. Paul, Minn. Officials said this year's vandalism was more serious because it involved more fires -- about 65.
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