A Philadelphia police SUV burns amid unrest back in May. PHILADELPHIA - Prosecutors on Thursday brought charges against two men who allegedly used road flares to torch a Pennsylvania State Police SUV during last summer's unrest in Philadelphia.
Lester Fulton Smith, a 26-year-old from Philadelphia, and Ayoub Tabri, a 25-year-old from Virginia, were charged with two counts of arson and one count of obstruction of law enforcement, acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced.
According to prosecutors, on May 30 the men were among a group of people who began damaging two Pennsylvania State Police SUVs positioned at the on-ramp for I-676 near Broad and Vine Streets.The group eventually shattered windows on one of the.