LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) - The FBI says a driver was arrested after running over a man outside the federal building where the victim worked in Southern California.
Bureau spokeswoman Laura Eimiller says 45-year-old Geoffrey Rickner was taken into custody shortly after the crash Thursday at the Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Niguel.
She says Rickner’s Mercedes hit the employee and then slammed into a parking garage. She says the victim is an investigator with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility. He’s hospitalized with serious injuries.
The FBI is trying to determine a motive for the apparent attack at the facility, which includes offices for Homeland Security and the IRS.
Rickner, a Laguna Niguel resident, is expected to face an assault charge. It’s not known if he has a lawyer.
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