The fires occurred in the same Gloucester County town.
A grand jury has indicted a Gloucester County man on charges that he set fire to a former school building, a shed and two cars in separate incidents in the same town earlier this year.on Feb. 1, and the owner of one of those vehicles later told police she thought Lopez-Medina may be responsible because she recently declined his request to begin a dating relationship, according to court documents.
Two days after the first fire, Lopez-Medina is accused of setting fire to a detached utility shed at Carriage House Apartments. A masked man wearing the same clothing was spotted on surveillance video at all three fire scenes and the arsonist used red spray paint to write the words “Let’s Play” on the sidewalk at the second and third fire locations, investigators said.
After those fires, Lopez-Medina sent pictures of the damage to the woman from the first fire and tried to suggest all of the blazes were the work or a serial arsonist, prosecutors said.“I think Mr. Lopez-Medina is desperately in need of mental health treatment,” attorney Eric Ziegler said. “This is a young man who, if he is just pushed on the right track, if he’s given the proper medication … I really feel that he could be a member of society that is worth having.
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