Most college students have gotten caught with fake IDs at the bar or liquor store, but last month, Nathan Pope, a Cabrillo College student, was caught with one because police were investigating him for firebombing the home of a UC Santa Cruz professor. The best part? The guy is 24, so unless he’s super stupid, we know that ID wasn’t for drinking.

According the San Jose Mercury News:

A 24-year-old man whose home police and the FBI raided twice after UC Santa Cruz researchers' homes were targeted by animal rights activists was arrested in Southern California Friday on a warrant for felony perjury.

Cabrillo College student Nathan Pope, also known as Nathan Christopher Knoerl, was booked into Vista Jail in San Diego County on a felony charge of obtaining falsified identification, according Santa Cruz police Capt. Steve Clark. He is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Santa Cruz police said the arrest was for a separate issue that developed during the animal rights investigation. Santa Cruz police were working with a joint terrorism task force on the animal rights investigation that included an investigator from the California Department of Motor Vehicles, Clark said. That investigator developed the case that led to Pope's arrest Friday.

"Our position is this is a separate violation," Clark said.

Clark said police still have no suspects in the animal rights incidents and no idea when it might be wrapped up.

"We are optimistic we will solve the case," Clark said, however.

FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler said that though the FBI helped serve the search warrant Friday, it was for a state charge and "unconnected with what we were searching for" in the animal rights case

Looks like Pope, alias Knoerl (why!?), won’t be firebombing anytime soon.