Most Popular Arson Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Arson Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Hanover Must Pay Rock Singer $2M in Case of Studio Arson, Court Says
Sep 29 2025 // Recording artist John Falls finally should see more than $2 million from a Hanover American insurance policy in the long-simmering case of a historic Memphis recording studio that was damaged in an arson fire and resulted...
#2 Owner of Historic Minnesota Resort Charged With Arson, Insurance Fraud
Dec 9 2025 // The owner of a historic Minnesota resort has been charged with arson and insurance fraud more than a year after a fire destroyed the property. Bryce Campbell, 41, of Two Harbors, Minnesota., was taken into custody last...
#3 Ohio Ex-Police Officer Sentenced for Starting 26 Arson Fires in Wayne National Forest
Feb 21 2025 // A former Ohio fire department administrator and police officer was sentenced in federal court here to 18 months in prison for starting dozens of arson fires in Wayne National Forest. James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio Grande,...
#4 Man Torches Tesla Chargers in South Carolina But Catches His Clothes on Fire
Mar 13 2025 // NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A man burned three Tesla chargers in a South Carolina parking lot and also apparently inadvertently set his clothes on fire, police said. The man spray-painted “long live the...
#5 Illinois Woman Sentenced to 15 Years for Insurance Fraud and Arson Scheme
Jul 17 2025 // A district judge this month sentenced sentenced Evette “Betty” Osuegbu, 62, of Granite City, Illinois to 15 years in federal prison for her role in a string of arsons and insurance fraud stretching from 2014 to...
#6 Update on New Jersey Wildfire: Suspect Charged With Arson
Apr 24 2025 // New Jersey officials announced that a 19-year old man has been charged with arson in connection with the Jones Road wildfire that started on April 22 and has spread throughout the southern Ocean County area. Joseph Kling...
#7 22-Year-Old Charged with Arson in Connection to Indianapolis Home Fire
Mar 26 2025 // The Marion, County Indiana Prosecutor’s Office filed arson charges with Intent to fraud against 22 year-old Gurpreet Singh, the Indianapolis Fire Department announced this week. On April 22nd, 2024, the Indianapolis...
#8 Update: Long Island Brush Fires Contained; 2 Firefighters Injured; Arson Probe Underway
Mar 9 2025 // Four brush fires that broke out over the weekend on Long Island are being investigated as possible arsons. The brush fires that were driven by 35 mph winds were contained on Sunday by first responders before they could...
#9 Second Person Charged With Arson in New Jersey Pine Barrens Fire
May 5 2025 // A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s second-largest fire in nearly two decades. Prosecutors said Friday that a 17-year-old was...
#10 Nevada Man Charged in Connection with Violent Tesla Arson in Las Vegas
Mar 28 2025 // A Las Vegas resident appeared in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada, to face federal charges related to an arson at a Tesla collision business. Paul Hyon Kim, 36, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of...
#11 Ohio Couple Sentenced for Arson in $2M Insurance Fraud Scheme
Feb 4 2026 // An Ohio couple have been sentenced for devising a scheme to collect more than $2 million dollars in insurance money by conspiring to set insured houses on fire, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio...
#12 Las Vegas Telsa Arson Suspect to Remain Jailed Until Trial
Apr 2 2025 // A man accused of setting fire to Tesla vehicles in Las Vegas will remain jailed until his trial on federal charges of arson and possessing an explosive device, a judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Elayna Youchah...
#13 Former Police Officers Convicted in Arson and Fraud Conspiracy
Sep 29 2025 // A federal jury found two former Maryland police officers guilty of wire fraud, arson and insurance and bank fraud. Philip James Dupree, of Pikesville and Mark Ross Johnson, Jr., of Camp Springs were found to have conspired...
#14 Texas Serial Arsonist Charged With Starting Hay Bale Fires
Aug 27 2025 // A serial arsonist in Lavaca County, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of felony vehicle arson and admitted to starting six hay bale fires dating to 2024, the Texas Department of Insurance announced this week. The...
#15 Former WV Fire Official Sentenced to 33 Months for Arson, Insurance Fraud
May 30 2025 // A former West Virginia volunteer fire official who pleaded guilty to fraud after burning down his home and misusing the fire department’s credit card has been sentenced to 33 months in prison. Donald A. Ennis, 44, of...
#16 Woman Sentenced After Pleading to Arson in Six Fires in North Carolina
Aug 27 2025 // A North Carolina woman was sentenced to as much as 12 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to setting six fires in Onslow County, on the state’s southeast coast. Chasity Dawn Keeter, 37, of Jacksonville, pleaded...
#17 ‘Sensitive’ Security Report Into Arson at Governor’s Mansion Won’t Be Made Public
May 5 2025 // A consultant paid to review security at the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro after it was firebombed by a late-night intruder said Friday that his team’s findings will not be made public. Retired...
#18 SC Law Enforcement Says No Arson Evidence in Fire That Destroyed Judge’s Home
Oct 8 2025 // State agents have so far found no evidence that a fire that destroyed a judge’s home on a South Carolina island was intentionally set, the state’s top law enforcement official said Monday. The Saturday blaze...
#19 Feds Charge White Supremacist Over 2019 Arson at Tennessee School
May 5 2025 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice center. Regan Prater...
#20 FBI Says Arson Suspect Targeted Mississippi Synagogue That Was Bombed in 1967
Jan 14 2026 // A suspect in an arson fire at a synagogue that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan decades ago admitted to targeting the historic institution because it’s a Jewish house of worship and confessed what he had done to his...
