Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a suspect in connection to two separate arson fires at the same church earlier this week. Wilmer J. Ortiz Torres, 43, was arrested Friday and charged with arson, burglary and criminal trespass in the two fires that occurred between Tuesday and Thursday at the Iglesia
Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a suspect in connection to two separate arson fires at the same church earlier this week.
The first of the fires erupted on Tuesday just before midnight. Police said that “it appears an individual entered the sanctuary area of the church and intentionally started the fire.” Elizabeth Collado, the church minister’s daughter, told ABC Philadelphia station WPVI on Wednesday that the church “never had any problems with anybody around here.”
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