All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2008 // A Sioux Falls man wanted on charges he and a business partner burned their business to collect the insurance money has been arrested in Arizona and scheduled for his first court appearance.Dai Thanh Ong, 27, and Chad...
Feb 1 2008 // Alabama fire marshals have determined that arson was to blame for a November fire that destroyed an unlicensed animal shelter in Rainsville, Ala., whose operator said more than 50 animals died as a result of the...
Jan 28 2008 // Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers says an arson task force is looking at four fires set at the front doors of occupied homes. They were set this month and last month in South Philadelphia. Ayers says he fears...
Jan 27 2008 // Federal grand jurors have indicted two Sioux Falls men on charges of burning down their car stereo installation business to collect the insurance money.One of them, Chad Michael Blair, 31, earlier was charged with an...
Jan 25 2008 // The son of an Alabama legislator is one of two men charged with arson and attempted burglary in what Cullman County authorities say is an investigation of suspicious fires in the Hanceville, Ala., area.Jerrod Heath Fite,...
Jan 22 2008 // Federal grand jurors have indicted two Sioux Falls men on charges of burning down their car stereo installation business to collect the insurance money.One of them, Chad Michael Blair, 31, earlier was charged with an...
Jan 21 2008 // The pastor of an Albany, Ga., church has been charged with first degree arson in connection with a fire that did severe damage to the church, the Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s office said.The Rev....
Jan 18 2008 // A former Frederick County Sheriff’s Deputy will avoid jail time for setting fire to his girlfriend’s sport utility vehicle in alleged insurance scheme. Thirty-eight-year-old Theodore Randolph Dorsey of...
Jan 18 2008 // A Kansas firefighter and his wife are charged with multiple felonies in an alleged insurance fraud-arson scheme. Shawnee Heights Fire District firefighter Laramie McPherson and his wife Christine McPherson are accused of...
Jan 17 2008 // Alabama investigators said a blaze that gutted a Blount County church on Tuesday was an accident, but they are still trying to determine whether there was a link between two church fires in Chilton County.Flames burned...
Jan 14 2008 // Five Pensacola, Fla., juveniles are facing arson and burglary charges following an investigation into a fire that destroyed a commercial building on January 3. No injuries were reported. The juveniles ranging in age from 8...
Jan 14 2008 // Police have arrested two Talbotton, Ga., firefighters on arson charges in connection with two separate blazes in the west Georgia town. Sheriff Bill Johnson says 30-year-old Jeff Scott Nelson and 32-year-old Norman Cable...
Jan 13 2008 // A fire that nearly destroyed a western Kentucky courthouse was an arson, the second time this county’s courthouse was set ablaze on purpose, according to officials.The fire at the Carlisle County Courthouse started...
Jan 8 2008 // Two Smiths, Ala., men have been charged on arson and burglary charges in connection with three church fires that occurred since Jan 1, State Fire Marshal Ed Paulk announced Monday.Geoffrey Parquette, 21, was charged with...
Jan 7 2008 // A fire at a barn in western Kentucky killed six horses, though rescuers were able to save 19 from the blaze.The fire at the former Riverside Downs in Henderson was extinguished by Friday evening. State police are...
Jan 7 2008 // Investigators are trying to determine what started separate fires that gutted a church and two houses in rural Lee County, Ala.Authorities said a man was seriously injured in a house fire reported about 1 a.m. on Jan. 3,...
Jan 7 2008 // Officials in western Kentucky now say arson is to blame for the fire last week that nearly destroyed the Carlisle County Courthouse.The investigation is still under way. The fire started early on the morning of Dec. 26. No...
Jan 4 2008 // A fire that nearly destroyed a western Kentucky courthouse was an arson, the second time this county’s courthouse was set ablaze on purpose.The fire at the Carlisle County Courthouse started early Dec. 26. The...
Jan 3 2008 // A building housing the water-sewer department in Lafayette, Ga., was heavily damaged and years worth of records were destroyed when teens broke in and set it on fire early on New Year’s Day, authorities said.Glenn...
Jan 3 2008 // State and local authorities are investigating an apparent burglary and arson that left an Albany, Ga., church heavily damaged.The fire was reported about 7:30 a.m. Monday at Metropolitan Baptist Church. The Georgia...