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<p>SCRANTON &#8212; A Plains Township man is facing additional charges in federal court related to throwing three Molotov cocktails inside the Luzerne County Children and Youth Services building last year.</p><p>A federal grand jury on Tuesday returned a superseding indictment against Phillip Finn Jr., 48, charging him with interstate communications to threaten another person and use of fire to commit a felony, according to U.S. Attorney David J. Freed.</p><p>Finn was initially indicted by a grand jury in federal court in July 2017 with stalking and interstate communications.</p><p>Finn allegedly used Molotov cocktails to firebomb the Children and Youth Services building on North Pennsylvania Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, on March 6, 2017.</p><p>Prior to fire-bombing the building that also houses the county&#8217;s Human Services Division, drug and alcohol programs and the Area Agency on Aging, Finn allegedly threatened two employees for Children and Youth Services, including driving to one&#8217;s home.</p><p>According to the indictment, Finn used Facebook, Google and his cell phone to look up the employees&#8217; addresses and searched &#8220;best way to threaten someone,&#8221; &#8220;clever threats,&#8221; and &#8220;how to threaten someone effectively&#8221; before throwing Molotov cocktails through a window at the county owned building.</p><p>Finn accused the agency of trying to take his 8-year-old daughter away from him when two caseworkers served him with a summons at his Abbott Street residence March 3, 2017.</p><p>Over the next two days, multiple messages were sent from Finn&#8217;s Facebook account to a caseworker&#8217;s ex-husband. In profanity-laden messages, Finn expressed an &#8220;urgent demand&#8221; to speak with the caseworker.</p><p>&#8220;Listen no one will EVER harm my daughter including your (expletives) wife&#8230;I already have all information about you and your children. If she continues to try to harm my 8 year old daughter which she already has&#8230;you can use your imagination&#8230;&#8221; one message states.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Ed Lewis</p><p>elewis@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div>

Plains man facing additional charges in C&Y firebombing