By Jason Hall
May 5, 2021
A Maryland woman was arrested after police said she set fire her home with a person inside and watching the blaze from a lawn chair in the front yard.
Gail Metwally, 47, was charged with first and second-degree attempted murder, first-degree arson, first-degree assault, two counts of first-degree malicious burning, two counts of malicious destruction of property and two counts of reckless endangerment, according to a news release from the office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal.
Witnesses told police they saw Metwally set multiple fires within a home on Cherry Lane in Elkton, Maryland before sitting in a chair on the front lawn and watching the fire engulf the house, then walking away from the scene minutes later.
By Jason Hall
May 5, 2021
A Maryland woman was arrested after police said she set fire her home with a person inside and watching the blaze from a lawn chair in the front yard.
Gail Metwally, 47, was charged with first and second-degree attempted murder, first-degree arson, first-degree assault, two counts of first-degree malicious burning, two counts of malicious destruction of property and two counts of reckless endangerment, according to a news release from the office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal.
Witnesses told police they saw Metwally set multiple fires within a home on Cherry Lane in Elkton, Maryland before sitting in a chair on the front lawn and watching the fire engulf the house, then walking away from the scene minutes later.
By Jason Hall
May 5, 2021
A Maryland woman was arrested after police said she set fire her home with a person inside and watching the blaze from a lawn chair in the front yard.
Gail Metwally, 47, was charged with first and second-degree attempted murder, first-degree arson, first-degree assault, two counts of first-degree malicious burning, two counts of malicious destruction of property and two counts of reckless endangerment, according to a news release from the office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal.
Witnesses told police they saw Metwally set multiple fires within a home on Cherry Lane in Elkton, Maryland before sitting in a chair on the front lawn and watching the fire engulf the house, then walking away from the scene minutes later.
North East trooper Seizes Cocaine and Gun on traffic stop in Cecil County
May 3, 2021
(Elkton, Maryland)
On May 1, 2021 at about 1:20 AM, a trooper from the Maryland State Police North East Barrack was on patrol on US 40/Pulaski Highway in the area of Ephrata Avenue in Elkton, Maryland. At that time the trooper stopped a white Kia four-door sedan for an equipment violation. Upon contacting the operator of the Kia, who was the only occupant and later identified as Avery Glover 31 y.o. of Newark Delaware, the trooper could see in plain view clear baggies of what appeared to be a white powdery substance.
ELKTON â A woman allegedly torched her home near Elkton on Thursday afternoon, gutting the house and displacing herself and three other adults who lived there, according to the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal.
No one was injured in the swiftly-spreading blaze â but one of the occupants made a narrow escape from the burning house, with the help of a man who was performing gutter work on a house diagonally across the street in the unit block of Cherry Lane, a short distance off Fletchwood, northeast of Elkton, fire officials reported.
A responding Cecil County Sheriffâs Office deputy spotted the woman who allegedly set the fire, as she was walking on the street a short distance away from the burning house, and detained her, fire officials said. As of late Thursday afternoon, fire officials added, MOSFM detectives were interviewing that woman at the Maryland State Police North East Barrack.