Minnesota state employee allegedly caused $20K in damage vandalizing Teslas — weeks after Gov. Tim Walz mocked automaker’s stock prices

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Dylan Bryan Adams, a 33-year-old fiscal policy analyst for Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, was arrested in Minneapolis for allegedly keying Teslas, causing $20,000 in damage across six incidents. Surveillance footage shows Adams, dog leash in hand, scratching vehicles—one with an “F” carved into a door—between March 15 and April 10 in Arden Hills and Target’s Quarry lot. Damages ranged from $1,600 to $10,370 per car. “Adams…was dragging a key across the exteriors of several Teslas,” per the Daily Mail. He was released April 18, with charges pending, per the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. Gov. Tim Walz, who mocked Tesla’s stock drop on March 20, employs Adams among 40,000 state workers, though he’s not a political appointee. “I added Tesla…$225 and dropping,” Walz said at a Wisconsin rally. The FBI’s task force, launched March 2025, labels Tesla attacks “domestic terrorism.”