Manassas Fire & Rescue Beat 9/15/11

On Thursday Sept. 15, Fire Marshals from the City of Manassas Fire and Rescue Department obtained a felony arrest warrant charging Brandon Curtin, 25, of East End Mobile Home Park, 9021 Centreville Road, Lot #5, in Manassas with intentionally setting fire to a neighbor’s 1987 Ford Ranger pick-up truck in the early morning hours of Monday Aug. 29.
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Fire Marshals conducted numerous interviews of residents of the East End Mobile Home Park over the last two weeks and identified Curtin as a second suspect in the burning of the pick-up truck.

Curtin was arrested Sept. 15 by city Fire Marshals as he was walking from the Farmer’s Market at the Harris Pavilion, where he works for a local produce vendor, to the 7-Eleven store on Grant Avenue at Church Street.

He is charged with one felony count of burning or destroying personal property greater than $200, (Virginia Code 18.2-81), and is being held on a $10,000 bond at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center.  A court date is set for Oct. 17, 2011.

-from the Manassas Fire & Rescue Department’s report