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Columbia student arrested for allegedly throwing unlit Molotov cocktail from dorm window

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 schoolโ€™s East Campus on Monday night.

While no one was injured as the makeshift firebomb wasnโ€™t lit, police received multiple 911 calls from worried students around 8:30 p.m.

The front steps and Alma Mater statue in front of the Low Library Building at Columbia University in Manhattan. Spiroview Inc. โ€“ stock.adobe.com

Jovero โ€” who wrestled for the Lions, according to the teamโ€™s website โ€” was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, police said.

The electrical engineering student and southern California native was later charged with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, according to police.

Police have not linked it to the political turmoil thatโ€™s gripped the Manhattan school since Hamasโ€™ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

The Post has reached out to Columbia for comment.


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