Arson

Johnson County Prosecuting Attorney Robert W. Russell has filed charges against a male accused of burning rural Leeton’s Harmony Baptist Church to the ground in July 2020.

On Saturday, Sedalia fire crews were dispatched to a residential house fire at 1820 South Warren Avenue called in at 12:57 p.m.

On Wednesday around 10:55 a.m., Sedalia Police responded to 508 South Engineer for an arson report.

A man has pleaded guilty to hate crime and arson charges for setting a fire that destroyed an Islamic center in southeast Missouri two years ago.

Pettis County Fire arrived on scene and extinguished the fire, later finding evidence of arson.

Upon arrival, officers located a male individual who witnesses stated exposed himself to them.

Sedalia Police were dispatched to the 400 block of Buckner Court for a report of a structure fire.

Authorities have announced an arrest in a fire that badly damaged an Islamic center in southeast Missouri.

A 39-year-old man is charged with second-degree murder and arson in the death of a 16-year-old boy in a fire in a St. Louis suburb.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that 24-year-old Eric Boyce was charged this month with first-degree arson in the Dec. 15 blaze