Hagerstown Juvenile Charged With 2 Counts of Arson
posted 4:32 pm Wed October 31, 2007 - Hagerstown, Md.
The state fire marshal's office said racism was the motive for two fires set by a 14-year-old white boy in Hagerstown.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Jason Mowbray said the unidentified juvenile set fire to a black woman's car September 16th, destroying a vehicle worth more than $8,000. He said the boy also set fire about a month earlier to a trash container and tires stored at the rear of the same victim's house.
Mowbray said the boy has been charged as a juvenile with offenses including arson, harassment and malicious destruction of property. He has been placed in the care of the Department of Juvenile Services pending trial.
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