Man Charged With Setting Fire In Apartment
ELKTON, Md. (AP) -- Fire officials have charged a 53-year-old man with setting a fire in his ex-girlfriend's apartment.
John Zehnder of no fixed address was charged Thursday with arson, malicious burning and reckless endangerment.
He is being held on $100,000 bond.
Deputy state fire marshals say Zehnder got into an argument with his ex-girlfriend in her apartment in Elkton on Wednesday.
Authorities say he set fire to a pile a clothes in a closet. A sprinkler system put out the blaze before firefighters arrived.
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