FOND DU LAC, Wisc. – The TikTok ban has been cited as a 19-year-old suspect’s reason for setting a U.S. congressman’s office on fire in Fond du Lac early Sunday morning. Fond du Lac Police Department said the Menasha man was arrested early Sunday ...

A young Menasha man who allegedly set a local congressman's office on fire after learning of a possible TikTok ban is facing a $500,000 cash bond.

One charge of “making terrorist threats” was dropped against a man accused of setting a fire outside a congressman’s office building because he was angry over the TikTok ban.

A Menasha man was taken into custody after setting fire to a building in a crime officials say was motivated by the national TikTok

Police said they have arrested a 19-year-old Menasha man, suspected of setting fire to a strip mall which has office space leased to U.S. Representative Glenn Grothman.

Rep. Glenn Grothman's office caught fire Sunday morning in what police say was an arson in retaliation for a U.S. ban on TikTok. The congressman tells NBC 26 he's never heard of anything like it.

The man contended the shutdown violated his constitutional rights and no longer believes peaceful protest is an option.

Defense attorney Timothy Hogan argued that the terrorist threat charge should be dismissed because Stachowicz did not communicate any threat ahead of the fire.

Caiden Stachowicz, 19, faces four charges in connection with the Jan. 19 fire: arson, attempted burglary, criminal damage to property, and terrorist threats.

Of Wisconsin’s eight-member House delegation, only Democratic Reps. Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore voted against the TikTok ban, citing an impediment on American user’s free speech rights. Shortly after the TikTok ban went into effect, Pocan wrote in a social media post Sunday that the ban was “Congress and the executive branch at their worst.”

Caden Stachowicz, 19, of Menasha, is charged with arson, making terrorist threats, attempted burglary and criminal damage.