All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 27 2007 // Fire officials in Pine Bluff, Ark., say arsons are on the increase and authorities are seeking the public’s help through a new hotline for reporting fire bugs.On a recent weekend the town had “seven fires and...
Dec 23 2007 // Insurance fraud investigators began preparing for an expected rash of arsons by cash-strapped homeowners trying to avoid foreclosures as the subprime mortgage crisis deepened. But arsonists were not waiting for bank...
Dec 12 2007 // The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Boerne Fire Marshals Office and the Texas State Fire Marshals Office announced the arrest of Joseph Stasny, a 39-year-old resident of Boerne, Texas,...
Dec 11 2007 // Almost nine years after five people died in an arson fire in Lynn, Mass., attorneys are still wrangling over which statements can be used at the trial of the woman charged with setting the blaze.The state’s highest...
Dec 6 2007 // A home being built in Humphrey, Ark., by the Jefferson County sheriff has burned in an apparent arson.State police are investigating the blaze. Sheriff Gerald Robinson says he believes the fire was set to retaliate against...
Dec 6 2007 // Two Indiana volunteer firefighters are charged with setting fires in abandoned buildings in northern Hamilton County.Adam B. Sampson, 21, of Tipton is charged with three counts of arson, two counts of burglary and two...
Nov 26 2007 // State officials say a tipster called the South Carolina Arson Hotline and helped authorities solve 12 Columbia-area cases.The help garnered a record reward for the anonymous tipster. The South Carolina Insurance News...
Nov 13 2007 // A weekend fire that caused extensive damage to the Martin County, prosecutor’s office has been ruled an arson, Indiana State Police said Sunday.The fire was discovered about 8:05 p.m. Saturday by two juveniles who...
Nov 9 2007 // The Massachusetts Fire Marshal’s office believes at least 10 recent fires in Provincetown on Cape Cod were deliberately set.Most of the blazes occurred in the west end of the Cape Cod town and were relatively small....
Nov 9 2007 // Authorities are blaming a fire that caused more than $1 million in damage to two downtown buildings earlier this week on a Virginia, Minn. man who got angry when a women took his money for marijuana but didn’t...
Nov 6 2007 // A Michigan judge has ruled that a former Saginaw mayor must stand trial on charges of arson and insurance fraud in the burning of her 1986 Mercedes-Benz.Saginaw County Circuit Judge William Crane ruled that Wilmer Jones...
Oct 5 2007 // Fire inspectors were investigating a series of five building fires that erupted in a half hour early Monday in northeastern Tennessee.“Every one of them went up like a tinder box,” said Lieutenant Tom Remine of...
Oct 4 2007 // The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said the fire that destroyed the home of Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina this summer was “very suspicious” and is being investigated as arson.The fire...
Oct 3 2007 // West Virginia enforcement officials formally indicted a Raleigh County man this week on a charge of first degree arson and insurance fraud after allegedly setting fire to his former residence.Officials arrested Andrew B....
Sep 19 2007 // The leader of an arson ring that collected more than $400,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for fires in three New York counties is scheduled to surrender Sept. 18 to serve a 10-year federal prison sentence, according to...
Sep 4 2007 // A man who admitted torching a friend’s grocery store in Everett, Wash., in a plan by the two to collect insurance and make the fire look like a hate crime has been sentenced to three years in prison.Naveed Khan, 25,...
Aug 27 2007 // The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday threw out the arson conviction of a man alleged to have set fire to a car containing the body of a murdered Chicago man.Kevin Kawanzel Harris, 27, will get a new trial because he was denied...
Aug 22 2007 // A man who just finished nearly two years in prison for an Ohio burglary was charged with burglarizing a Pennsylvania hotel and setting a fire that killed a man staying there.Michael Watson, 42, was arraigned Monday, Aug....
Aug 20 2007 // An Iowa City, Iowa woman convicted of setting her own apartment on fire will serve up to 10 years in prison. Jayne Eicher, 38, pleaded guilty to second-degree arson Aug. 7. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison with...
Aug 15 2007 // A fire that damaged the office of an elementary school in Fairfield, Ala., was intentionally set, State Fire Marshal Ed Paulk said last week. “There is evidence of a break-in and theft, as well as the presence of an...