All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 16 2021 // An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged with arson for a fire at an Austin synagogue, officials said.Franklin Barrett Sechriest was held on a $100,000 bond for the Oct. 31 fire at Congregation Beth Israel, KVUE-TV...
Nov 5 2021 // Austin leaders gathered earlier this week to demonstrate solidarity with the city’s Jewish community after a string of antisemitic incidents including an expected arson to Texas’ oldest synagogue.The nonprofit...
Oct 28 2021 // Three teenagers accused of starting a fatal apartment building fire in Maine have been charged with felony murder, officials said.Two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old were charged last month with arson, but those charges...
Sep 24 2021 // Thousands of people were under evacuation orders Friday and many others were on notice to be ready to flee as a destructive wildfire raged in a drought-stricken forest in California’s far north.A woman suspected of...
Sep 21 2021 // A federal investigation is underway after arson damaged a historic Kansas City, Missouri, church that now serves a congregation predominantly made up of people from the South Sudan.John Ham of the Kansas City office of the...
Sep 16 2021 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King announced that Russell Leon Warner, 49, of Fulton County, is wanted in connection with a Pierce County fire that occurred on Sunday, September 12, just after 5:00...
Aug 26 2021 // Police and fire investigators say a fire at a northeast Missouri law firm’s office is being investigated as an arson.The fire was reported early Sunday at the Frick and Cundiff law office in Kirksville. Legal...
Aug 5 2021 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King announced that a Putnam County fire was intentionally set and has been ruled an act of Arson. The fire occurred on Grand Avenue at approximately 3:19 A.M. on July...
Aug 4 2021 // A fire that destroyed one of Maine’s nine covered bridges has been declared an arson, the fire marshal’s office said. A local business put up a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrests of those...
Jul 26 2021 // A Massachusetts man is facing charges of arson and insurance fraud in connection with a fire that consumed a building he owned in Great Barrington.The building held apartments and a retail shop but was vacant when it went...
Jul 18 2021 // Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck improperly took money from the private insurer he led and used it to buy campaign signs when the Republican ran for office in 2018, a witness testified Friday in...
Jul 14 2021 // A series of wheat field fires in western Michigan prompted an arson investigation, authorities said.Two fires were reported recently just outside the village of Waldron, according to the Hillsdale Daily News. The first...
Jul 13 2021 // A fire that extensively damaged businesses just south of Seattle in White Center early Monday is now under investigation as arson by the King County Sheriff’s Office.The incident was reclassified due to new evidence,...
Jul 9 2021 // A recent fire In Columbia County, Georgia has been ruled arson, according to Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King’s Fire Investigations Unit.The fire occurred on Sullivan Hartfield Road in Evans and...
Jul 8 2021 // Officials have charged a man with one count of arson after a string of suspicious fires in Norfolk, Virginia.News outlets report that the Norfolk Fire Marshal’s Office announced the arrest of Ryan Elza, 42, on...
Jul 1 2021 // Six people are facing charges ranging from arson and manslaughter to filing a false instrument and criminal impersonation in connection to a fire at an assisted living facility in a New York City suburb earlier this year...
Jun 30 2021 // A French appeal court on Wednesday rejected a request by chemicals group Lubrizol to have judicial charges over a fire at a plant in Rouen quashed because of alleged irregularities in the investigation, a lawyer for the...
Jun 28 2021 // A woman accused of setting a fire that damaged three buildings and displaced a dozen New Jersey families earlier this month has been arrested, prosecutors said.The Hudson County prosecutor’s office announced the...
Jun 24 2021 // Two women linked to a mobile home fire in western Maryland last week have been charged with arson, according to Maryland fire investigators. The Office of the State Fire Marshal announced that investigators determined that...
Jun 10 2021 // Tony is an unusual dog.He never eats his food out of a bowl, always feeding from his human’s hand. He has a distinct physical appearance, having lost part of his tail as a puppy. And he’s an accelerant...