A Texas man was indicted on federal hate crime charges on Thursday in connection with an act of arson that destroyed a mosque and Islamic community center in January.

The man, Marq Vincent Perez, was charged with hate crime damage to a religious property, use of fire to commit a federal felony and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to a statement from the United States attorney’s office for the Southern District of Texas.

The mosque, the Victoria Islamic Center in Victoria, Tex., was gutted by flames on Jan. 28. Investigators ruled in February that the fire had been deliberately set but initially said no evidence had been found to indicate that it was a hate crime. No injuries were reported in connection with the blaze.

Mr. Perez, 25, was initially indicted in March on a charge of possession of an unregistered destructive device that prosecutors accused him of using to try to blow up a car on Jan. 15. His lawyer, Mark A. Di Carlo, described that device on Thursday as a firework.