Church In Foreclosure At Center Of Arson Fire

In Albany, Georgia, The Albany Herald reported earlier this month:

• Investigators are questioning a possible suspect in the arson of an Albany church, while more details of the church’s financial troubles are revealed, authorities said. [Last week], fire officials and police responded to the 2400 block of West Gordon Avenue to a fire. When they arrived, they found the sanctuary of Trinity Metropolitan Baptist Church burning. The fire, which Albany Fire Chief James Carswell called a malicious act of arson, is believed to have caused an estimated $150,000 in damage to the building, fire officials said. [...] According to a legal ad placed in The Albany Herald [...], at least three different lenders were set to foreclose on the property and sell it at auction Wednesday [January 2, 2008] on the courthouse steps.

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