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BALDWIN, PA A suspect has been arrested in an arson that occurred Thursday at a structure in the 200 block of Revo Road. No injuries occurred during the fire.
According to Allegheny County Police, a witness identified Vincent Chalmers, 46, of Baldwin as the person who set the fire. Chalmers later was located and taken into custody by Pennsylvania State Police in the Meadville area.
He is being detained there while awaiting extradition to Allegheny County to face arson charges, police said.
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A Baldwin man has been charged with arson in connection with a Thursday fire along Revo Road.
Vincent Chalmers, 46, is charged with two counts of endangering people by arson and one count of endangering property by arson.
In a criminal complaint filed against Chalmers, police said Richard Revo told them he saw Chalmers throwing gasoline on the side of the house and on its front porch.
Chalmers, who goes by the nickname of “Moe,” was then seen entering the house through the front door, “still throwing gasoline,” according to the complaint.
Revo told police he is the owner of the house that Chalmers set ablaze. The house used to belong to his grandparents, but he has been renting it out to the Chalmers family for 40 years, he said.