Suspect Charged With Torching Foreclosed Home Believed To Be Ex-Firefighter

In Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, the Chester Daily Local reports:

• For the second time in two weeks authorities arrested someone connected to the Pomeroy Fire Company for arson. At one point, it appeared Samuels was a firefighter with Pomeroy because his name was listed as such on a fire company Web page that has since been revised. But Fire Chief Jeff Sellers adamantly maintains Samuels was always just a social member who helped with fundraisers.

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• Police allege Samuels set a house on fire about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday [...]. The unoccupied house is in foreclosure and owned by Bank of America, police said.

• The arrest comes two weeks after Pomeroy volunteer firefighter Robert Bruce Tribbett, Jr., 24, of Sadsburyville, was arrested for setting homes and sheds on fire in Sadsbury. [...] Samuels was arraigned Friday morning [...] and then taken to Chester County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.

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