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Police responded to a burning bush in Cambridge, but the bush did not speak to them and there was a guy standing next to it with a lighter

By adamg on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 1:39pm

Cambridge Police report arresting a man who set a bush on fire in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Avenue early yesterday - and also charged him for a dumpster fire in an alley off Mount Auburn and Athens streets the day before.

According to police, officers responding to a report of a burning bush around 4:30 a.m. found Francis Haugh, 43, of Cambridge, standing next to a smouldering bush with a lighter in his hand. Officers also found "multiple piles of trash that had been burned; one pile was located on top of an electrical outlet."

As firefighters doused the various piles, police took Haugh into custody for both the Mass. Ave. fires and for a fire in a church dumpster off Mount Auburn Street around 8:20 p.m. on Sunday. He was formally charged with four counts of burn personalty, in which the violator is alleged to have placed flammable material next to a building in an attempt to set the material and then the building on fire.

Innocent, etc.

Neighborhoods: 
Cambridge
Harvard Square


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Comments

By Pete X on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 1:47pm.

Turkeys are rampant around there, I'm surprised the TLF let him set fire to one of their favorite haunts without a squawk.

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By Friartuck on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 3:24pm.

"It was a Kate Bush and I was just running up that hill."

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By anon on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 3:57pm.

Headline got me lollin, good work adamg

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By Robert Winters on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 5:16pm.

There were similar reports recently in both Central Square and Harvard Square a week or so ago. I wonder if it's the same person.

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By Robert Winters on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 5:22pm.

April 11, 2022:
Francis Haugh, 43, 240 Albany Street in Cambridge, was placed under arrest at Cambridge Street on warrants issued out of the Roxbury District Court on a charge of Burning Personality and the other out of the Cambridge District Court charging him with Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon and Possession of a Class B Substance.

Oct 3, 2021:
Francis Haugh, 42, 240 Albany Street in Cambridge, was charged Possession of a Class B Substance - Crystal Methamphetamine. Officers conducting a drug investigation and found Haugh in possession of a baggy of suspected crystal methamphetamine.

For those who don't know, 240 Albany Street is the BayCove "Wet Shelter" for active alcoholics (and apparently active drug abusers).

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By dan r on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 9:00pm.

5:04 AM (!!!) 10/06/21 Francis Haugh, arson, 19 Jersey Street

That's the Red Sox Pro Shop

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5086f19ce4b0ad16ff15598d/t/615f43...

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