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Dec 9 2025 // The owner of a historic Minnesota resort has been charged with arson and insurance fraud more than a year after a fire destroyed the property.Bryce Campbell, 41, of Two Harbors, Minnesota., was taken into custody last...
Sep 29 2025 // Recording artist John Falls finally should see more than $2 million from a Hanover American insurance policy in the long-simmering case of a historic Memphis recording studio that was damaged in an arson fire and resulted...
Sep 29 2025 // A federal jury found two former Maryland police officers guilty of wire fraud, arson and insurance and bank fraud.Philip James Dupree, of Pikesville and Mark Ross Johnson, Jr., of Camp Springs were found to have conspired...
Oct 8 2025 // State agents have so far found no evidence that a fire that destroyed a judge’s home on a South Carolina island was intentionally set, the state’s top law enforcement official said Monday.The Saturday blaze...
May 5 2025 // A consultant paid to review security at the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro after it was firebombed by a late-night intruder said Friday that his team’s findings will not be made public.Retired...
May 5 2025 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice center.Regan Prater...
Apr 2 2025 // A man accused of setting fire to Tesla vehicles in Las Vegas will remain jailed until his trial on federal charges of arson and possessing an explosive device, a judge ruled Monday.U.S. Magistrate Judge Elayna Youchah...
May 30 2025 // A former West Virginia volunteer fire official who pleaded guilty to fraud after burning down his home and misusing the fire department’s credit card has been sentenced to 33 months in prison.Donald A. Ennis, 44, of...
Apr 24 2025 // New Jersey officials announced that a 19-year old man has been charged with arson in connection with the Jones Road wildfire that started on April 22 and has spread throughout the southern Ocean County area.Joseph Kling of...
May 5 2025 // A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s second-largest fire in nearly two decades.Prosecutors said Friday that a 17-year-old was...
Jul 17 2025 // A district judge this month sentenced sentenced Evette “Betty” Osuegbu, 62, of Granite City, Illinois to 15 years in federal prison for her role in a string of arsons and insurance fraud stretching from 2014 to...
Mar 9 2025 // Four brush fires that broke out over the weekend on Long Island are being investigated as possible arsons.The brush fires that were driven by 35 mph winds were contained on Sunday by first responders before they could...
Aug 27 2025 // A North Carolina woman was sentenced to as much as 12 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to setting six fires in Onslow County, on the state’s southeast coast.Chasity Dawn Keeter, 37, of Jacksonville, pleaded...
Jan 7 2025 // A Maine man out on bail for an April 2024 arson charge has been charged with a new arson incident.According to officials, on the evening of January 5, the Maine State Fire Marshal (FMO) assisted with an investigation of an...
Mar 13 2025 // NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A man burned three Tesla chargers in a South Carolina parking lot and also apparently inadvertently set his clothes on fire, police said.The man spray-painted “long live the...
Mar 26 2025 // The Marion, County Indiana Prosecutor’s Office filed arson charges with Intent to fraud against 22 year-old Gurpreet Singh, the Indianapolis Fire Department announced this week.On April 22nd, 2024, the Indianapolis...
Mar 28 2025 // A Las Vegas resident appeared in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada, to face federal charges related to an arson at a Tesla collision business.Paul Hyon Kim, 36, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of...
Jan 31 2025 // A jury found an East Quogue, New York woman guilty of arson for attempting to set three homes on fire in Hampton Bays in November 2023.Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said that Amanda Burnside is due...
Dec 31 2024 // A Vermont man has been charged with first degree arson and insurance fraud for allegedly setting fire to his own home in Stamford.The Stamford Fire Department responded to a fire on Mill Road on the morning of December 27....
Feb 21 2025 // A former Ohio fire department administrator and police officer was sentenced in federal court here to 18 months in prison for starting dozens of arson fires in Wayne National Forest.James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio Grande,...