All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline announced Wednesday that Deborah K. Wildberger and Michael T. Hovermale were indicted by a Morgan County grand jury Sept. 6 on charges of insurance fraud.Wildberger...
Sep 5 2005 // A federal jury ruled last month that former commodities firm executive Marc E. Thompson set his home ablaze and burned his elderly mother alive to collect insurance money that he later hid during bankruptcy proceedings,...
Sep 5 2005 // A federal jury ruled last month that former commodities firm executive Marc E. Thompson set his home ablaze and burned his elderly mother alive to collect insurance money that he later hid during bankruptcy proceedings,...
Jun 28 2005 // United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Allen Loucks recently announced that Aaron Lee Speed, 21, of Waldorf, Maryland pled guilty to conspiracy to commit arson in connection with the Dec. 6, 2004 fire at the...
Jun 19 2005 // The New York soldier accused of killing two superior officers and making it look like an enemy attack was accused by an insurer of masking the cause of a fire that destroyed his home.The allegation is included in court...
May 23 2005 // Four St. Louis-area men were convicted Wednesday of federal charges related to the torching of four grocery stores as part of a scheme to collect more than $3.5 million in insurance claims. After a 13-day trial, a U.S....
May 23 2005 // Four St. Louis-area men were convicted Wednesday of federal charges related to the torching of four grocery stores as part of a scheme to collect more than $3.5 million in insurance claims. After a 13-day trial, a U.S....
May 9 2005 // Officials with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms arrested a District of Columbia man who they suspect may be responsible for more than 40 fires in the Washington region. Authorities made the arrest in Prince...
Apr 4 2005 // A Gretna, La., man has admitted plotting to have his hunting camp in Mississippi burned for insurance money, and agreed to testify against two men accused of torching the Plaquemines Parish Courthouse to destroy evidence,...
Mar 2 2005 // In 2003, the rate of arson offenses relative to population decreased by 6 percent from the previous year, according to the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).The number of intentionally set structure...
Jan 3 2005 // An arson that destroyed part of a Greenbelt, Maryland-area development with many black homeowners was “an effort to wipe out a community” and authorities are “very carefully investigating” whether...
Dec 20 2004 // A graduate student at the California Institute of Technology has been convicted of a series of arson charges related to firebomb attacks on sport utility vehicles in the San Gabriel Valley last year. William Jensen...
Dec 8 2004 // Investigators suspect arson in at least four of the fires that destroyed a dozen homes and burned several others in Indian Head, a posh Maryland subdivision under construction near a nature preserve, and the FBI said it...
May 18 2004 // Georgia Insurance and Fire Commissioner John Oxendine announced that two arrests have been made in connection with a daycare center fire in Cochran, Ga.Angel Farrow Gordon, 35, was arrested for allegedly conspiring to set...
May 17 2004 // An Escambia County, Florida man was arrested recently for a residential burglary and arson that occurred on May 25, 2002, at 700 West Johnson Avenue. New information developed by investigators’ lead to the arrest of...
May 13 2004 // A Florida business owner has been arrested on charges that he burned down his seafood processing company in order to collect insurance proceeds, according to investigators with the State Fire Marshal’s...
May 4 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio and Secretary of State Randy Daniels on Monday recognized national “Arson Awareness Week” by encouraging New Yorkers to protect themselves from arson-related...
Apr 29 2004 // Marking the start of National Arson Awareness Week (May 2-8), Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John Oxendine is reminding Georgians that they can get personally involved in the fight against the crime of...
Apr 27 2004 // An Escambia County, Florida man was arrested last week for a residential burglary and arson that occurred on May 25, 2002, at 700 West Johnson Avenue. New information developed by investigators lead to the arrest of the...
Apr 21 2004 // A 39-year-old Alexander City, Ala. woman was charged with first-degree arson in connection with a fire that resulted in a rescue of the woman’s boyfriend. According to the Alabama Department of Insurance, Janet Tuck...