All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 8 2021 // Authorities suspect an arsonist set a wooden roller coaster on fire in an overnight blaze at a northern Idaho theme park.The Kootenai Sheriff’s Office responded to the Silverwood Theme Park near the town of Athol at...
Jun 1 2021 // A south-central Montana man who pleaded no contest to hiring someone to burn down his house for the insurance money so he could pay a debt to the federal government in a drug case has been ordered to pay...
May 19 2021 // A Brooklyn landlord has been charged with manslaughter for the death of a tenant who jumped out of a window to escape a fire prosecutors said was caused by a space heater in a building that did not have heat.Evener Leon,...
May 10 2021 // A man faces arson and criminal mischief charges after a fire at a storage facility near the Salem Municipal Airport in Oregon on Monday resulted in over $1 million in damages.Firefighters responded to a report of a large...
May 6 2021 // A group of Maryland volunteer firefighters accused of setting fire to vacant structures have been charged with arson and other crimes.The five men, who worked for West Lanham Hills Volunteer Fire Department in New...
Apr 29 2021 // A 27-year-old Connecticut man has been arrested on charges of setting fire to a building that housed a mental health treatment facility where he lived, police said.Firefighters and police officers were dispatched to a...
Apr 26 2021 // A former wildland firefighter who owns the land where a burn pile ignited a large wildfire near Rapid City says he believe the blaze was intentionally set.In a 60-page report, the landowner told investigators he was...
Apr 26 2021 // A large fire that gutted a Southeast Portland, Ore., textile manufacturing last week was arson, according to fire officials. Portland Fire & Rescue said in a statement that a security camera recorded someone starting...
Apr 21 2021 // A Maine man accused of setting fire to a Massachusetts church with a predominantly Black congregation been charged with hate crime offenses, federal prosecutors said.Dushko Vulchev is charged in federal court with four...
Mar 22 2021 // Two people have been arrested after police responded to what they called a suspicious fire at a hotel in Berlin that critically injured a woman.A fire ignited in the 56-year-old woman’s room at the Hilltop Inn,...
Mar 10 2021 // A Bend man currently being held at a regional jail in The Dalles has been indicted on two first-degree arson charges in a 2019 fire that heavily damaged a downtown Madras law office.An official confirmed Monday to KTVZ...
Feb 10 2021 // The suspect in a fire that destroyed all but the outer rock walls of a 111-year-old Texas courthouse is being held on arson charges, authorities say.Nicholas Miller, who remained jailed on Feb. 9, was arrested on Feb. 5...
Feb 7 2021 // A suspect has been arrested been taken into custody following a massive fire that destroyed all but the rock outer walls of an 111-year-old Texas courthouse, an official says.The fire at the Mason County Courthouse in...
Jan 14 2021 // A Stowe man is facing eight arson charges that he set a series of fires over nearly two years that caused more than $1.5 million in damage, police said Wednesday.Police say Jeffrey Nolan, 62, admitted to setting a fire...
Dec 17 2020 // After a lengthy investigation, deputies of the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office have charged a Caroline County woman for intentionally setting fire to her house.The fire was reported to 911 by a passer-by around...
Dec 14 2020 // The owner of a historic St. Cloud, Minn., bar has been indicted on federal arson and wire fraud charges for allegedly setting fire to the business and submitting a fraudulent insurance claim, prosecutors announced.Andrew...
Nov 17 2020 // Co-workers Rajdeep Singh, 35, of Rocklin, Calif., and David Bailey, Jr., 29, of Sacramento, were arrested on multiple counts of insurance fraud and arson after allegedly conspiring to commit vehicular arson in order to...
Nov 9 2020 // A New York man has been charged with arson and other crimes after allegedly setting fire to vehicles in a tow yard and filing an insurance claim to collect the cash.Egor Spiridonov, of Broad Channel, Queens, has been...
Oct 28 2020 // Arson investigators are trying to determine whether a blaze that damaged a Kentucky city hall building was intentionally set.The Burkesville government building suffered fire damage early Sunday to a section where police...
Oct 19 2020 // An arson investigator and an arson suspect were killed during a shootout early Friday in Houston after the investigator pursued the suspect, city police and fire officials said.Investigator Lemuel Bruce, 44, died at a...