All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 17 2012 // The former fire chief in Bryson City and his wife have been indicted on embezzlement charges.The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that the charges filed by state Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced against...
May 7 2012 // It’s Arson Awareness Week in Michigan.Gov. Rick Snyder says he wants to focus public attention on the seriousness of fire-setting by young people and the importance of preventing such behavior through collaborative...
Apr 24 2012 // A northwestern Pennsylvania woman will spend 10 years on probation for attempting suicide by setting fire to her home with a foreclosure notice.The Erie Times-News reported Monday that Erie County Judge John Garhart opted...
Apr 2 2012 // Investigators have determined that a fire that killed a 97-year-old Pearl City, Hawaii woman early Friday morning was intentionally set, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.The woman who died in the blaze has been...
Mar 29 2012 // Two volunteer firefighters in South Texas and another man have been accused of starting a 2011 grass fire.Officials say 23-year-old Dustin James Ronshausen of New Braunfels, 21-year-old David Paul Puckett Jr. of Seguin...
Mar 8 2012 // Four San Angelo juveniles are suspected of setting fire to an abandoned San Angelo hotel and the arrests may lead to solving other suspicious fires in the area.San Angelo fire investigators have placed two suspects in...
Feb 23 2012 // Fresno County authorities are offering $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in last month’s arson attack California’s biggest beef processor.Sheriff’s officials announced the reward Tuesday. The...
Feb 22 2012 // A Wisconsin business owner is charged in federal court with torching his business and offering to kill someone’s wife in payment for helping set the fire.Prosecutors accuse 32-year-old Mathew Lemberger of Denmark of...
Feb 17 2012 // A judge gave the maximum sentence possible to a man who admitted to setting fire to an office complex in Cape Girardeau, Mo.Twenty-six-year-old Mark K. Carleton was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison. He pleaded...
Jan 19 2012 // A San Diego, Calif. elementary school reopened Wednesday, two days after an arson fire that caused $600,000 in damage.The blaze shortly before midnight Monday at Alice Birney school in University Heights damaged the...
Jan 10 2012 // Investigators say arson is suspected in a blaze that destroyed 14 big-rig tractors and several trailers at California’s Harris Farms cattle operation, the state’s largest cattle feeder, beef processor and beef...
Jan 9 2012 // Because of an alarming increase in suspected arson fires in Kentucky, State Fire Marshal William Swope is asking citizens to provide information to help solve the crimes. Since December, arson has been suspected in nearly...
Jan 6 2012 // The man who allegedly ignited more than 50 fires that terrorized Los Angeles last week is also under investigation in Germany for a house fire near Frankfurt.U.S. investigators also disclosed that a search of Harry...
Jan 3 2012 // Los Angeles police booked a 24-year-old man on suspicion of arson after an L.A. County sheriff’s deputy detained him in connection with a string of more than 50 fires, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.Booking...
Dec 20 2011 // Someone broke into Robertson Elementary School early Sunday in Yakima, Wash. and set fire to the library. KNDO reports many books were lost. Damage is estimated at $100,000.
Dec 20 2011 // The Shoreline Fire Department in Washington says the fire that damaged a hair salon Sunday night was set. The fire was extinguished in minutes and no one was injured. The Seattle Times reports the hair salon is in a strip...
Dec 12 2011 // The city of Charleston is now offering $50,000 for tips that lead to the arrest of whoever is responsible for a series of arsons during the past decade. There have been about 85 suspicious fires since 2000 in an area where...
Nov 23 2011 // Two men in Texas have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to commit arson in order to obtain insurance proceeds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced.Blaise Hancock, of...
Oct 13 2011 // A 30-year-old Reserve, La.,woman has been sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for her role in 2007 fire at a public housing complex. Niasha Marie King pleaded guilty to setting her apartment in Reserve on...
Aug 24 2011 // A Massachusetts judge has rejected a plea to suppress evidence in the case of a Northampton man accused of setting 15 fires that left two men dead and damaged property and vehicles more than a year ago.Prosecutors allege...