A Columbia University student-athlete has been arrested for allegedly throwing an unlit Molotov cocktail from his dorm room, according to police.
Javen Jovero, a 22-year-old senior at the Ivy League college, sparked a panic when he filled a plastic bottle with rubbing alcohol and a sock and hurled it from a dormitory on the school’s East Campus on Monday night.
The front steps and Alma Mater statue in front of the Low Library Building at Columbia University in Manhattan. Spiroview Inc. – stock.adobe.comWhile no one was injured as the makeshift firebomb wasn’t lit, police received multiple 911 calls from worried students around 8:30 p.m.
Jovero — who wrestled for the Lions, according to the team’s website — was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, police said.
The economics student and Southern California native was later charged with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, according to police.
The makeshift firebomb was allegedly tossed on Columbia’s East Campus. Google MapsPolice have not linked it to the political turmoil that’s gripped the Manhattan school since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“Public Safety and the NYPD responded immediately to the incident and apprehended an individual believed to be involved,” a university spokesperson told The Post.
“This was an isolated incident with no other individuals involved. A full investigation is underway, and the University’s rules and policies will be applied and enforced.”
