The Michigan appeals court has overturned the arson conviction of a man who insists he had no financial incentive to destroy his profitable pawn shop in suburban Detroit. Judge Paul Cusick wouldn’t allow defense witnesses to testify about Joshua Burger’s …
A woman accused of setting fire to a bar she was buying in central Nebraska has taken a plea deal. Custer County District Court records say 54-year-old Jane Chestnutt pleaded guilty last week to criminal mischief and attempted arson. Prosecutors …
A woman has been accused of setting fire to a bar she was buying in the central Nebraska town of Arnold. Custer County Court records say 54-year-old Jane Chestnutt is charged with three felonies: arson, criminal mischief and burning to …
Prosecutors say a building owner on trial in the deaths of two Ohio firefighters set the deadly fire to collect insurance money. They say 64-year-old Ray Abou-Arab had filed for bankruptcy two years before the 2014 fire in Toledo and …
Authorities have charged the owner of a Watford City, N.D., restaurant and an employee with torching the business to collect insurance money. Owner Anna Marquardt, 37, and employee Lisa Stoll, 28, face felony arson and insurance fraud counts in the …
A woman convicted of setting fire to a bar and grill she co-owned in the South Dakota town of Herreid to get insurance money has been granted a new trial. A jury in February found 42-year-old Lori Brandner guilty of …
A South Dakota woman accused of setting fire to her own bar to get more than $300,000 in insurance money has been convicted of arson. Attorney General Marty Jackley says a jury found Road House Bar and Grill owner Lori …
A Kansas City woman has admitted to helping to burn down one home and plotting to burn another for insurance money. The U.S. attorney’s office says 35-year-old Tina Shonk pleaded guilty to two federal counts. Through her plea, she admitted …
A judge has declined to prevent private Facebook messages from being considered during a trial of two people charged in an Evansville, Ind., marina fire. The Evansville Courier & Press reports the judge denied the motion to suppress the messages …
A millionaire developer and restaurant owner in Massachusetts has been charged with masterminding the arson of an under-construction home so he could collect the insurance money. Alan Kaplan, of Brookline, Massachusetts, was granted $10,000 bail and ordered to surrender his …
