Truck driver sentenced to prison for using gas to burn employer’s semi truck at Omaha airport

A truck driver is facing years in federal prison for taking and burning a semi truck owned by his former employer.

Florida-based truck driver Kevin Kaedi, 27, was sentenced to five years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for “malicious use of explosive materials,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska.

He was also ordered to pay $59,353.63 in restitution.

Officials say that on March 25, 2024, Kaedi was working as a truck driver for Missouri-headquartered Prime, Inc. when he disconnected his vehicle’s tracking devices so that his employer could no longer track the truck. He then parked the truck in the south cell phone parking lot of Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska.

On March 31, surveillance video shows Kaedi renting a car at the Eppley Airfield terminal and driving it back to the truck in the lot.

Officials say that Kaedi is seen on video unloading items from the truck into the rental car and then driving off.

Several minutes later, smoke is seen coming from the parked truck, triggering a response from fire fighters, who eventually knocked down the vehicle blaze.

Authorities discovered a “red plastic gas container inside the cab of the semi-truck along with an incendiary device, indicating that the fire was intentional.”

The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and City of Omaha, Fire Investigation Unit.