Tashaun Normand, 42, constructed and deployed Molotov cocktails, throwing them at a vehicle and in the direction of a residence, causing significant fires.
Officers were called to the Islamic Centre of England just after midnight on Tuesday alongside London Fire Brigade following reports of a fire. Police believe two flammable objects were thrown into the ground which caused fire damage to a cabin and a parked vehicle. The suspect fled left the scene in a car. The centre itself was not damaged and the fires went out by themselves before first responders arrived, police said. Nobody was injured in the fire, the force added.
Tiffany was loving and caring and was very close to my daughter and wife. I think the school friends got together and met up in the flat to just have a chat and enjoy their holidays. My daughter is in the same class as Tiffany in Kingsford Community School. We always saw Tiffany she was so generous and humble and has a heart of gold.
Notorious Dunne mob linked to burning of eight cars outside pub Toyota car used in attack involved in extensive crime spree across three counties in days leading to attack Detectives are investigating if associates of missing drugs baron Sean Dunne ordered an arson attack in which eight cars were set alight in a pub car park just after the new year.
Security camera footage released on Monday by the synagogue showed a masked and hooded person using a gas can to pour a liquid on the floor and a couch in the building's lobby. Pittman's father later allegedly became suspicious of burn marks on his son's ankles, hands and face. He reportedly contacted the FBI and said that his son had confessed to setting the building on fire.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old occasional Uber driver who used to live in Pacific Palisades, was charged with three felonies by federal prosecutors in October, who claim he was in the neighborhood in the early hours of New Year's Day. According to a federal complaint, Rinderknecht allegedly used an open flame likely a lighter to start a small blaze that grew to about 8 acres (3.2 hectares) before firefighters rushed to the area and extinguished it. That blaze was known as the Lachman fire.
The top German prosecutors' office, the "Bundesanwaltschaft," has taken over the probe into an arson attack on the power supply in Berlin on Saturday that has caused the longest blackout in Germany's postwar history. The prosecutors are investigating the incident as involving unconstitutional sabotage, membership in a terrorist group, arson and the disruption of public facilities. The arson attack is believed to have been carried out by left-wing extremists,
Toronto police said a man is in custody in connection with a suspect arson at a federal government office building in North York Monday. Police said officers responded to a call about a fire in the third floor cafeteria of the building at 4900 Yonge St., near Elmhurst Avenue, just after 11 a.m. Toronto paramedics told CBC Toronto they transported one person to a hospital in serious, non-life threatening condition.
As KRON4 reports, the incident occurred between 3:45 and 4:45 am near Kirkham and La Playa streets in San Francisco's Outer Sunset District Saturday. Residents said about 100 people reportedly took part in the sideshow, as seen in the below footage captured by a resident. In the below KPIX segment, which shows the remains of the burnt U-Haul van, a witness tells KPIX the suspect reached into the van prior to the fire and began shooting a gun into the air.
A California equestrian who tried to hire a hitman to murder her estranged husband fatally shot herself outside a San Diego bar after being released from prison, but before facing arson charges for burning down the couple's Del Mar mansion. Tatyana Remley, 45, put a gun to her head outside the Princess Pub & Grille in the city's trendy Little Italy section just before 9 p.m. last Thursday after firing a single shot into the air, witnesses told local ABC affiliate KGTV.
Brandon Olsen, 46, pleaded guilty in July to one count of arson, the website stated. The Denver district attorney's office said Olsen broke into the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center on Jan. 2, 2024. He stole the keys to the building from a security guard at gunpoint and then started a fire on the seventh floor, according to 9News.com.
It would be "unjust" to now jail a former Bank of Ireland employee who stole almost €200,000 from a branch and its customers before attempting to set the building on fire, the Court of Appeal has found, despite ruling that her original fully suspended sentence and community service order were too lenient. Maureen McCormack (53) maintained that she stole the money to pay for debts incurred for IVF treatment.