An East Boston woman living with her ex-boyfriend was arraigned yesterday on charges she set his Coleridge Street apartment on fire, causing $300,000 in damage, displacing three people and sending four firefighters to the hospital.
Judge Roberto Ronquillo, Jr., set Tina Farulla's bail at $5,000, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which had requested bail of $50,000, and which provided this account:
Firefighters, police respond to car fire on Pratt Street in Allston this morning. Photo by Christine Varriale.
Allstonian reports three cars were set on fire this morning off Pratt Street - and then another one went up in flames across the street after firefighters put out those fires.
Christine Varriale reports:
Don Lubin reports three cars were set on fire over the weekend on Wadsworth, Pratt and Ashford streets.
Boston Police charge three men poured a flammable liquid under the door of an apartment on Medford Street early this morning, then lit it, starting a two-alarm fire:
Heavy fire quickly filled the apartment forcing the residents to escape out the window.
Boston fire crews tonight responded to 49 Maxwell St. for a fire, less than 24 hours after they put out another fire at the same address.
Fire investigators ruled yesterday's fire suspicious and were summoned to the address again tonight.
A Dorchester man already under suspicion for a string of fires since 2008 was arrested on charges he set a Roslindale house on fire early this morning, federal and city officials say.
Jose Baez, 38, was arrested after authorities tracked a GPS unit they'd secretly put on his car to the area of 11 Firth Rd., where an early morning fire did roughly $100,000 in damage and sent one resident to the hospital:
The Boston Fire Department says a fire that broke out shortly before noon at 6 Westville Terrace was deliberately set and that one man is under arrest.
Some 12 people are now homeless, the department says, adding the fire, set on the second floor, did about $75,000 in damage. No one was injured.
District C-6 reports two cars were damaged when one erupted in flames at 8 Covington St. around 3:20 a.m. Around 4:50 a.m.
Can a pair of hard-boiled - and fictional - private eyes crack the case of JP's serial arsonist? That's the premise behind Part-Time Private Eyes, also known as "the noir adventures of Franklin and Turner, two former English Majors who teamed up to pool their knowledge of TV crime dramas to solve Boston's toughest cases."
... He was hitting places regular for a few months and then stopped, but there was one exception: January 28, Maria's Salon. If you took that one out, it would almost seem like clockwork, hitting towards the beginning of the month in December (the 11th), January (the 6th) and February (the 7th). Which means maybe something got him a little jingle-brained on before the 28th.
He'd have to be on the swift to rush a plan together, and maybe that means he'd have to swing by the corner of Washington and Rockvale, which looks like his personal shopping mall from where I'm sitting. If I've got the right slant on this: Between the 7th and the 28th, he must have heard something about Maria's that set him off, and must have started planning then--The one-a-month thing seemed to be working out for him otherwise. ...
Tire arsonist?: Police say he's getting ready to start a tire fire.
Boston Police have released a series of photos of a man they say may be responsible for using tires to set several Jamaica Plain homes and a business on fire in recent months - and that there is now a $5,000 reward for information leading to his capture.
Police say the photos were taken around 4:40 a.m. on Feb. 7 at 22 Sigourney St., shortly before flames erupted.
The man is also suspected for setting Maria's Hair Salon and Spa on fire around 4 a.m. on Jan. 6 and then setting 111 School St. on fire early on the morning of Jan. 28.
Information can be called into the city Arson Hotline at 617-343-3324. Anonymous tips to 1-800-494-TIPS or via texting 'TIP' to CRIME (27463).
The Herald gets a hold of a police report on the New Fellowship Baptist Church fire, which states the fire broke out in several places at once.
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on three suspicious fires between December and February, two of which involved the same method as apparently used to set that Centre Street hair salon on fire in January. Two of the fires were at a condo project on Sigourney Street, one on School Street.
Boston Police report a man tried to burn a drinking buddy's house down when the friend refused to hand over the gold chain the guy accused him of taking:
... After purchasing the gas, officers learned that the suspect came back with the gas can, poured gas on the front porch of the building and ignited a fire. Several witnesses reported to officers that they observed the suspect igniting fire, and even after the fire was put out, stated that the suspect kept trying to re-ignite the fire. Prior to the suspect lighting the fire, witnesses reported hearing him state that he would burn down the building if he did not get his chain back. ...
Police escorted Horace O. White, 55, of Roxbury, to a place where he wouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
Innocent, etc.
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