A 25-year-old Mt. Pleasant man is jailed in Livingston County on a $1 million bond, accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a home as his stalking of a juvenile escalated into an attack on their home.

Authorities in Brighton Township were first alerted at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, after several bottles of flammable materials were thrown at a house on Burson Drive, igniting fires, the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday, Dec. 5.

Within less than a day, Mt. Pleasant police officers had the suspect in custody in mid-Michigan and he was being transported to the Livington County Jail, awaiting criminal charges in the county just northwest of Metro Detroit.

Now, Alex Buley-Neumar is being held in the downstate jail on a $1 million bond, facing four felony criminal charges.

On Monday, Dec. 1, he was arraigned in the 53rd District Court on charges of the manufacture/possession of a Molotov cocktail causing damage, a potential 20-year felony; aggravated stalking of a minor, which carries up to 10 years in prison; using a computer to commit a crime, also a 10-year felony; and accosting a child for immoral purposes, a four-year felony.

When emergency responders arrived at the Burson Drive home in a residential neighborhood, the fires had been extinguished by “alert neighbors… preventing what could have been a catastrophic outcome,” the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office said in its statement. The home is about an hour-and-40 minute minute drive from Mt. Pleasant.

Deputies found evidence of the incendiary devices and documented the fire damage. Investigators when learned the violence was connected to “an ongoing stalking and harassment case involving a juvenile victim over social media platforms.”

And the suspect was identified, prompting sheriff’s detectives to work overnight with police investigators and officers in locating him.

By 3 p.m. the next day, Saturday, Nov. 29, Buley-Neumar was being taken into custody without incident by Mt. Pleasant officers, the sheriff’s office said.

Sheriff’s officials also wanted to remind parents and families “to get involved and be aware of what their are doing on social media and who they are talking to.”

The sheriff’s office did not provide an age or gender of the stalking victim.

Buley-Neumar is due back in court for an 8 a.m. Dec. 9 hearing for a probable cause conference before Judge Shauna Murphy. A preliminary examination is scheduled at this time for Dec. 16.

He was represented by a court-appointed attorney at the arraignment and has requested one for the ongoing case, according to court records.