SAN JOSE — A man charged locally with trying to destroy a South San Jose post office by driving a flaming car into the building — while livestreaming the entire ordeal, including his real-time police interrogation — now faces a federal arson charge for the alleged attack, according to the regional U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Richard Tillman, 44, of San Jose, has been charged with malicious destruction of government property by fire, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday, also the day Tillman was arraigned in a federal courthouse in San Jose.

Tillman, the youngest brother of the late San Jose-raised NFL player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, already faces felony arson and vandalism counts in Santa Clara County Superior Court. That case is on hold pending a mental compet

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