FIRE TO METH Arrest Made in South Charleston House Fire
Reported by: Atish Baidya
Web Producer: Michelle Carroll
Reported: May. 7, 2012 4:57 AM EDT
Updated: May. 7, 2012 9:08 PM EDT
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South Charleston
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
South Charleston Police arrested Jessica Sanson this afternoon. They say she torched a house in South Charleston early Monday morning.
According to court documents, Sanson says she was walking down 7th Avenue, found a bottle, then found gasoline, and then combined the two. After that she walked past a house she thought was abandoned on Central Avenue poured gas on the porch and lit it up.
She says she set the fire because she was angry.
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A house on Central Avenue in South Charleston caught fire after someone threw what could have been a Molotov cocktail on the front porch.
It happened a little after on one o'clock Monday morning.
Neighbors say that they think someone was squatting at the house, but that person apparently left the scene before firefighters got there.
While investigating the cause of the fire, firefighters found a working meth lab in the back of the house.
A crew from Parkersburg were called in to cleanup the lab.
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Atish Baidya
