A man was arrested after investigators say he crashed his car through the gate at a solar energy plant in Las Vegas, Nevada and then set the vehicle on fire near a transformer at the plant in the beginning of January.

Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, 34, told police “I burned it” after he was arrested on Jan. 5, the Associated Press reported. Mesmarian said he set the damaging fire at the solar power plant to send a message in support of clean energy.

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