All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2023 // Police in South Fulton, Georgia, have charged the president and treasurer of a large condominium association with stealing more than $1.5 million in insurance payouts after two fires in 2020 destroyed a building.Multiple...
Jul 27 2023 // Authorities searched on Thursday for the person who set a fire that killed a Memphis firefighter and sent three others to the hospital.The Memphis Fire Department said arson was to blame for a fire late Tuesday that killed...
Jul 7 2023 // SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) – Officials in San Marcos, Texas, have named the man charged with intentionally starting a fire five years ago which killed five people and displaced 200 others.Jacobe De Leon O Shea Ferguson, of...
Jul 3 2023 // Atlanta Police Department motorcycles were damaged in an intentional fire caused by devices set inside a training facility early Saturday, officials said.The Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department responded to reports of a...
Jun 19 2023 // A 71-year-old man was arrested Friday on suspicion of starting a forest fire that destroyed more than 100 homes last year near Yosemite National Park, California fire authorities said.Edward Fredrick Wackerman, of...
Jun 14 2023 // CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) – A 26-year-old man has been arrested and charged with arson for walking into a northwestern Indiana jail, pouring an accelerant on the floor and starting a small fire, a sheriff said.The man...
May 22 2023 // EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) – A southwestern Indiana man allegedly set a fire that gutted a building more than 100 years old that was listed decades ago on the National Register of Historic Places, police said.Charles...
May 8 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A man suspected of setting fires to Minneapolis mosques was indicted Thursday on federal charges of arson and damage to religious property while investigators look into a series of crimes targeting...
Apr 21 2023 // A fire that broke out at a Massachusetts church not long after Easter services is being investigated as a possible arson, according to the FBI and state and local law enforcement agencies.The fire started about 5:30 p.m....
Apr 21 2023 // The owner of a Philadelphia building that caught fire and collapsed last summer, killing a city firefighter and injuring five other people, has been indicted along with another man on charges they set the blaze, federal...
Apr 11 2023 // A woman was arrested after she pushed a burning shopping cart into a Los Angeles police station, damaging the lobby, authorities said.Mishauna Eaton, 30, was arrested on suspicion of arson and was being held on $250,000...
Mar 16 2023 // One year after Georgia volunteer firefighter Todd Anthony said a kitchen fire burned down his house and he filed a $700,000 insurance claim, authorities have charged the man with arson. Anthony, 56, of Greensboro, was...
Jan 25 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The only survivor of a Kansas house fire that killed a woman and two young girls has been arrested on suspicion of setting the blaze.Topeka police arrested Kyle J. Tyler, 32, of Holton, on Saturday,...
Jan 20 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – A fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, Peoria police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections.Officers responded to a...
Jan 13 2023 // A Colorado dentist accused of setting a fire that damaged a transformer at a solar power array outside Las Vegas last week told investigators he wanted to send a message supporting clean energy and denied his intention was...
Jan 12 2023 // INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An Indianapolis apartment fire left a 28-year-old man and four children ages 1, 3, 12 and 14 unconscious, in cardiac arrest and hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said...
Dec 6 2022 // Tougher penalties for certain types of arsons and large-scale thefts at stores in North Carolina are among all or portions of 10 new state laws approved by the General Assembly this year that will take effect on...
Nov 29 2022 // When an elementary school in Durham, North Carolina, caught fire in the middle of the night last April, officials found it strange that the alarm did not sound or alert the local fire department.It turned out that...
Nov 10 2022 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with seven fires set across Mississippi’s capital city early Tuesday.At least two of the buildings set ablaze in Jackson were churches; one...
Oct 28 2022 // A raging fire destroyed a vacant commercial building in Los Angeles this week and numerous other small fires broke out in the same area, triggering an arson investigation, authorities said.Flames lit up the sky before dawn...