
A Walnut Creek man described by his estranged wife as displaying “erratic behavior” has been jailed in connection with fires set to cars and homes of men that had served as his groomsmen four years before. Van Buskirk, 33, has
by Michelle Moons7 Jan 2016, 12:14 PM PST0

The Muslim charged with setting fire to his own mosque turned over his passport and the judge set his bond at $150,000 on Monday. He remains in jail.
by Lana Shadwick5 Jan 2016, 9:19 AM PST0

A Texas judge has found probable cause to hold a Muslim man who is charged with setting the Christmas Day arson fire of his own mosque. He will be held over the weekend pending a second bond hearing set for Monday.
by Lana Shadwick31 Dec 2015, 9:15 AM PST0

Using surveillance video from other area businesses to identify the arsonist, Gary Nathaniel Moore, 37, was arrested and charged with starting the Christmas Day fire that devastated a Houston, Texas mosque. Moore is a devout Muslim who attended this same
by John Nolte30 Dec 2015, 9:46 AM PST0

Police in Hope, Arkansas, believe an arsonist set fire to former President Bill Clinton’s childhood home on Friday. According to Hope Police Department Chief J.R. Wilson, early Friday morning a motorist spotted the fire at the Clinton Birthplace National Historic Site.
by William Bigelow27 Dec 2015, 7:09 PM PST0

Insisting that no “hate crime” is suspected, police in St. Louis arrested an African-American man for a series of arson attacks on African-American churches perpetrated earlier this month.
by Warner Todd Huston2 Nov 2015, 6:55 PM PST0

In a rare instance of a conviction being overturned because the defendant was denied his 6th Amendment Rights, a man who conspired to burn down his restaurant and collect the insurance money no longer has prison time to serve.
by William Bigelow2 Nov 2015, 10:10 AM PST0

Many of the attacks on churches have been religiously or racially motivated, the Center notes, such as a string of arson attacks at six predominantly black churches in the Saint Louis area this month, although federal law enforcement agencies have ruled these fires to be unrelated and police are as yet unwilling to say whether the attacks are racially driven. Acts of arson are also significantly more common in churches than in other structures, and in recent years only 5-10% of residential and non-residential fires were intentionally set, as compared to the 51% of church fires that were deemed acts of arson.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.26 Oct 2015, 9:38 AM PST0

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say another church property has been set on fire in the St. Louis area, the seventh such blaze in two weeks.
by Breitbart News22 Oct 2015, 2:22 PM PST0

After receiving substantial blowback about their piece on a mob of Palestinians setting fire to a Jewish holy site in the West Bank, CNN has stealth-edited its story substantially to more accurately represent what actually happened on the ground late Thursday.
by Jordan Schachtel16 Oct 2015, 11:12 AM PST0

A man from Iowa has been arrested for an unrelated charge but is a suspect in connection with a fire set at the Texas State Capitol on August 7th. The man, 38-year-old Michael Patrick Wagner, was arrested this week and is
by Lana Shadwick16 Aug 2015, 10:14 AM PST0

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking help from the public in identifying a “person of interest” (shown above) in connection with a car fire on the grounds of the Texas Capitol. The vehicle had been identified earlier on Friday by a Twitter user as belonging to a Texas House Sergeant at Arms employee, James “Trey” Morgan.
by Bob Price8 Aug 2015, 6:03 AM PST0

Two churches in a rural community near the Texas border were intentionally set on fire almost simultaneously. Investigators of the crime are puzzled about the motive for the fires.
by Ildefonso Ortiz11 Jul 2015, 9:38 AM PST0

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has arrested a suspect, Dawud Abdulwali, 56, on arson charges connected with the massive downtown fire last December that consumed the Da Vinci apartment complex. The Los Angeles Times reports that Abdulwali was arrested Tuesday morning during a traffic stop, and after a lengthy investigation.
by Joel B. Pollak27 May 2015, 10:20 PM PST0

HOUSTON, Texas – An arrest was announced at 6 p.m. Monday night at the Houston Fire Department Arson Headquarters in connection with the February 13th Quba Islamic Institute fire. Darryl Ferguson, age 55 of Houston, has been charged with arson.
by Lana Shadwick16 Feb 2015, 6:52 PM PST0

LOS ANGELES, California — The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) who caused a massive downtown Los Angeles fire that destroyed the 7-story Da Vinci apartment complex, melted freeway signs, and damaged local buildings late last year is now set at an unprecedented $170,000.
by Adelle Nazarian23 Jan 2015, 5:00 AM PST0

Three major fires have been reported in Oxfordshire within nine minutes of each other, after what Police suspect to be a spate of arson attacks. The buildings attacked were a thatched cottage, a funeral directors and one of the major
by Andre Walker15 Jan 2015, 2:16 AM PST0

An arsonist set fire to a mosque in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna on Thursday, injuring five people, police said.
by Breitbart News25 Dec 2014, 5:40 PM PST0

LOS ANGELES, California — Arson has been confirmed as the cause of a massive, historic fire that destroyed the Da Vinci apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles last week. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), and the Bureau of
by Adelle Nazarian18 Dec 2014, 6:28 PM PST0