All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2018 // Two men pled guilty in federal court for their respective roles in a scheme to commit insurance fraud by arson.Dudley Bledsoe, age 63, of Hanover in Wyoming County, West Virginia, and Ricky Dwayne Gleason, age 54, of Peach...
Mar 5 2018 // A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Sunflower County Sheriff’s...
Feb 23 2018 // Investigators ruled arson was to blame for a fire that started in a Georgia home and rapidly spread throughout a subdivision, destroying five houses and damaging at least 14 others before firefighters could extinguish all...
Feb 12 2018 // A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Sunflower County Sheriff’s...
Feb 9 2018 // Two teenage boys have been charged with arson that destroyed a century-old home on Maryland’s Kent Island. The Office of the State Fire Marshal in Maryland reported that the two teens, age 14 and 15, pulled old...
Dec 20 2017 // Fire officials say a Maryland woman has been charged with setting a fire that destroyed her trailer home and injured her adult son.The Office of the State Fire Marshal says in a news release that fire marshals served a...
Dec 19 2017 // Surveillance video shows that an intruder lit the fire that damaged a building at a Mississippi community college.The predawn Thursday blaze damaged more than half of Mississippi Delta Community College’s...
Nov 13 2017 // Authorities say a series of fires damaged five structures in Alabama and three teenagers have been charged.Sylacauga Police Chief Kelley Johnson told news outlets that authorities started receiving reports of fires Tuesday...
Oct 31 2017 // Tennessee investigators say a captain with Nashville’s fire department was arrested on arson and insurance fraud charges for setting his home on fire on purpose. According to a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation news...
Sep 6 2017 // A fire chief and three other volunteer firefighters are facing arson charges in Kentucky.Kentucky State Police said in a news release Friday that the arson charges stem from a fire in an empty building in Crofton on Aug....
Aug 31 2017 // Authorities on Aug. 30 arrested a man suspected of starting an illegal campfire believed to have ignited a growing Northern California blaze that destroyed 10 homes, damaged five others and threatened hundreds more.The...
Aug 10 2017 // A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information regarding separate fires that damaged two vacant homes last week in Walker County, Georgia, according to a statement from Georgia’s Deputy Insurance and...
Aug 7 2017 // A judge has ruled that an insurance company doesn’t have to pay an Ohio man accused of burning down his house.The ruling came on July 14 in southwest Ohio’s Butler County in a civil lawsuit filed by the...
Jul 27 2017 // Fire officials in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff are investigating a rash of arson fires at vacant homes. The Poplar Bluff Daily American Republic reports that 16 vacant houses have been set on fire since...
Jul 20 2017 // A Philadelphia Fire Department captain has been arrested and charged with insurance fraud.Court records show 43-year-old Yolanda Stallings, of Philadelphia, Penn., was arrested June 27 and charged with various offenses...
Jul 17 2017 // A former volunteer firefighter in Indiana was sentenced to at least two decades in prison after he was convicted of arson.Adam Selbee, 20, was sentenced after pleading guilty in May to four counts of arson. The Bloomington...
Jul 17 2017 // A judge has ruled that an insurance company doesn’t have to pay an Ohio man accused of burning down his house.The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports the ruling came on July 14 in southwest Ohio’s Butler...
Jul 5 2017 // Prosecutors have dropped arson charges against two juveniles in connection with the Tennessee wildfires that killed 14 people and tore through thousands of homes and businesses in November, a law enforcement official said...
Jun 27 2017 // An arson team in California is investigating after two vacant buildings were destroyed by fire at the 129-year-old Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles County.Officials say crews responded to the...
Jun 13 2017 // A Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to participating in a $235,000 arson and insurance fraud conspiracy. Federal prosecutors say 43-year-old Joseph Levi Little is the third person to plead guilty in the scheme. Tina...