Latest Arson Headlines
All the headlines from our Arson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Eight Fires Within 16 Hours in New Hampshire are Deemed Arson
Oct 12 2010 // Authorities say eight fires in 16 hours in Manchester, New Hampshire were arson. Fire officials say they started Saturday afternoon and ended Sunday. No injuries or serious damage have been reported. District Fire Chief...
Student Arrested After Fires Again Strike Pennsylvania Dorm
Sep 30 2010 // A student is in custody following a series of fires inside a northeastern Pennsylvania dorm. Nineteen-year-old Ryan Burke was arrested hours after two fires broke out early Tuesday in the dorm on the campus of East...
Texas Panel Expected to End Arson Inquiry
Sep 16 2010 // A Texas panel is expected to review a final report that clears fire officials of wrongdoing in their arson investigation that led to a man’s 2004 execution. The Texas Forensic Science Commission is scheduled to meet...
Authorities Say Tennessee Mosque Fire Was Arson
Sep 7 2010 // Federal investigators said Friday that a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in the southern state of Tennessee was arson and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading...
Connecticut Arson Cop Charged in Car Fire Conspiracy
Sep 2 2010 // The top arson investigator in Connecticut’s largest city has been arrested in alleged fire-for-hire plot to burn her car for the insurance money. Veteran Bridgeport police Detective Kimberly Biehn is facing charges...
West Virginia Firefighter to Plead in Arson Case
Sep 1 2010 // A Nov. 8 plea hearing is set for a former volunteer firefighter accused of setting a blaze in Berkeley County, W. Va., that injured a firefighter from another department. Berkeley County Prosecutor Pamela Games-Neely told...
Kentucky Police Suspect Two Fires Are Arson
Aug 19 2010 // A pair of fires that happened within minutes of each other may be arson and a southern Kentucky fire chief believes they may also be connected. Russellville Police Department Chief Barry Dill told the Bowling Green Daily...
Arson Blamed for Fire at New York Elementary School
Aug 12 2010 // New York arson investigators have determined that a blaze at a Long Island elementary school was intentionally set. Police say witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion and saw several people running from the George...
Maine Man Arrested for Arson After Posting Burned Car on Facebook
Jul 14 2010 // Photo Courtesy of Belfast Facebook Page A Belfast, Maine, man is facing charges he set a Mercedes-Benz on fire and then posted photos of the burning vehicle on Facebook. Belfast police say 36-year-old Asgard Tarick Gilbert...
Preacher’s Son, Accomplice Plead Guilty in Georgia Church Arson
Jun 16 2010 // Two of three men charged with arson in a 2005 fire that destroyed a church pleaded guilty in Barrow County Superior Court in Georgia. Maurice Arnold and Bruce Edward Smith pleaded guilty. Prosecutors say the Rev. Quincy...
Georgia Preacher, Son Face Church Arson Charge
Jun 9 2010 // A Georgia preacher and his son accused of burning down their church to claim an insurance check are scheduled to appear in Barrow County Superior Court. Quincy Arnold of Lawrenceville, the 50-year-old pastor of the former...
Florida Man Charged with Arson of His Yacht Named Shameless
May 14 2010 // A Tallahassee man has been arrested on charges of arson, insurance fraud and grand theft after state investigaors said they determined the suspect intentionally set fire to his yacht, a 50-foot SeaRay named...
Arson by the Numbers
May 3 2010 // There were an estimated 30,500 intentionally set structure fires in the United States in 2008 that resulted in some $866 million in property loss, according to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). Intentionally set...
West Virginia’s Martinsburg Reports Spike in Arson
Apr 20 2010 // A Martinsburg, West Virginia official says arson is on the rise in the Eastern Panhandle city. Lt. Greg Hoover said the Martinsburg Fire Department investigated 10 arsons in the first three months of 2010. That’s...
Michigan Officials Suspect Arson in 10 Fires in Flint
Apr 20 2010 // Authorities in Flint are investigating a dozen weekend fires — most of them suspected to be arson. Flint Fire Department Battalion Chief Andy Graves said Sunday that 12 fires were reported since midnight last Friday....
Arson by the Numbers
Apr 19 2010 // There were an estimated 30,500 intentionally set structure fires in the United States in 2008 that resulted in some $866 million in property loss, according to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). Intentionally set...
Warrant Issued for Arson at Topless Coffee Shop in Maine
Apr 7 2010 // Maine fire investigators say a former boyfriend of a waitress at a topless coffee shop is being charged with arson for last year’s fire that destroyed the shop and some adjoining apartments in the small town of...
Arson by the Numbers
Mar 22 2010 // There were an estimated 30,500 intentionally set structure fires in the United States in 2008 that resulted in some $866 million in property loss, according to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). Intentionally set...
Criminal Negligence Charges Weighed in Deadly 2007 South Carolina Fire
Mar 17 2010 // The father of a firefighter who died in a 2007 furniture store blaze that killed nine firefighters says families will meet with state fire investigators next week to discuss whether criminal negligence was involved in the...
New York Man Charged with Insurance Fraud for Mobile Home Fire
Mar 16 2010 // An upstate New York man who claimed he was thrown 35 feet out of his mobile home by the force of a propane explosion has been charged with insurance fraud, New York insurance officials said. State police arrested James E....
