An Indiana man has been charged with aggravated arson for his role in allegedly setting a fire that destroyed a Carpentersville apartment building and displaced 24 families, the village’s interim police chief said.
The fire started about 12:30 a.m. Nov. 29 in a first-floor apartment of a building in the Meadowdale Apartments complex, 104 Meadowdale Court, with the blaze ultimately spreading to the roof, fire officials said at the time.
Carpentersville police detectives, working with the Indiana Department of Corrections and the FBI’s Chicago field office, arrested Garland H. McGhee, 30, of Gary, Indiana, on Wednesday, according to a news release issued by interim Police Chief Kevin Stankowitz.
McGhee has been charged with four felonies: aggravated arson, residential arson, arson to real and personal property, and criminal damage with fire or explosives in which damage exceeded $100,000. Aggravated arson is a class X felony.
No information on a possible motive or how investigators linked the case to McGhee has been released.
