NEWS RELEASE
TIMMINS POLICE SERVICE
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The Timmins Police Service has charged a local man with arson stemming from a deliberately set fire at a South Porcupine apartment building early this morning.
Responding to the fire call on Golden Avenue, Timmins Police Service officers took the necessary precautions to ensure that none of the occupants of the building were in harm’s way in regards to the fire.
They then began their investigation and were able to determine that an argument had taken place between the tenants of the building.
At one point, one of the tenants is alleged to have set a bag of clothes on fire in the building hallway, with the use of an accelerant. The fire was noticed and subsequently extinguished by other tenants of the building.
Timmins Fire Department and South Porcupine Fire Department were dispatched to the scene.
The suspect was identified to police and located at the scene.
Other exhibits related to the offence were located and secured as evidence by the Timmins police Service.
As a result of the incident, Trevor Lynch, 49, of South Porcupine, has been charged with:
- Arson With Disregard for Human Life contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
The accused remains in custody and is awaiting a bail hearing slated for this morning at Provincial Court in Timmins to answer to the charge laid against him.
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