All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2016 // The owner of a construction company in Pascagoula has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to set fire to his business.The Sun Herald reports a judge also fined 53-year-old Michael Eugene Slater and...
May 26 2016 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department recently issued a notice to advise and remind insurers of their obligations under the state’s law in the reporting of suspected arson and insurance fraud.The department also said...
May 16 2016 // Authorities say a New Jersey diner owner has been charged with burning down the restaurant to collect insurance money.The New Jersey Herald reports that Tina Diakos was arrested and charged on May 13 with setting the March...
May 13 2016 // One question has lingered in the Central Texas farming town of West since a fertilizer plant caught fire in 2013 and exploded, killing 15 people and damaging at least $100 million in property: What caused the blaze?On May...
May 13 2016 // Kentucky State Police say two people have been charged in connection to a home burglary and arson that occurred in Madison County. Police say 38-year-old John C. Roth of Nicholasville was arrested Tuesday and charged with...
May 12 2016 // A house north of Richmond has become the sixth home in Central Kentucky that state police think were recently burglarized and then set on fire.Trooper Robert Purdy told news outlets that a Madison County home received a...
May 2 2016 // An employee of a suburban Chicago furniture warehouse is facing federal arson charges for allegedly starting a fire that destroyed the building. Ruben Ochoa Cruz is charged in the April 21 fire that destroyed The RoomPlace...
Apr 22 2016 // A woman convicted of setting fire to a bar and grill she co-owned in the South Dakota town of Herreid to get insurance money has been granted a new trial.A jury in February found 42-year-old Lori Brandner guilty of arson,...
Feb 4 2016 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced the arrests of six Colquitt County residents and a Clayton County woman involved in a staged insurance fraud ring. A joint investigation by Hudgens’ Insurance...
Jan 31 2016 // A Kansas City woman has admitted to helping to burn down one home and plotting to burn another for insurance money.The U.S. attorney’s office says 35-year-old Tina Shonk pleaded guilty to two federal counts. Through...
Jan 11 2016 // A Providence, Rhode Island, landlord will serve three and a half years in federal prison for starting a fire at a vacant apartment in an otherwise occupied multi-family home in an attempt to collect insurance...
Oct 26 2015 // A Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on charges that he paid his brother to set fire to his northeastern Pennsylvania home as part of an insurance scam, a blaze that claimed his brother’s life.A...
Sep 24 2015 // A millionaire developer and restaurant owner in Massachusetts has been charged with masterminding the arson of an under-construction home so he could collect the insurance money.Alan Kaplan, of Brookline, Massachusetts,...
Aug 3 2015 // A California Fire captain and his insurance agent brother have been arrested for insurance fraud.Neal Moriarty, 38, a Cal Fire captain, and Ross Moriarty, 42, a licensed insurance agent, were arrested in late July on...
Jul 31 2015 // Houston police say a man has been accused of starting an apartment complex blaze on July 28 that left three firefighters slightly hurt.Houston City Jail records show 18-year-old Danny Isidoro was being held on a charge of...
Jul 30 2015 // A Connecticut woman accused of using fireworks to burn down her Windham, Connecticut, home for insurance has received a fully suspended prison sentence. The Day of New London reports 48-year-old Julie Amero-Volle pleaded...
Jul 27 2015 // A California Fire captain and his insurance agent brother have been arrested for insurance fraud.Neal Moriarty, 38, a Cal Fire Captain, and Ross Moriarty, 42, a licensed insurance agent, were arrested last week on multiple...
Jul 20 2015 // As social media buzzed about church fires in the South, investigators said July 2 that weather caused a destructive blaze at a predominantly black church in South Carolina. The State Law Enforcement Division said in a...
Jul 6 2015 // As social media buzzed about church fires in the South, investigators said July 2 that weather caused a destructive blaze at a predominantly black church in South Carolina.The State Law Enforcement Division said in a...
Jul 2 2015 // Two men have been sentenced to federal prison for arson and insurance conspiracy after authorities say they conspired to burn houses they bought and insured in Kansas City, Mo. A news release from U.S. Attorney Tammy...