Connecticut FF Charged In Arson String
A PLYMOUTH, CONNECTICUT, VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER was arrested and arraigned Friday morning for setting several fires in the village.
Brett Fennessy, 22, has been charged with second-degree arson, first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree criminal trespass charges. He is being held on $80,000 bond and is on a jailhouse suicide watch.
Fennessy posted on his MySpace page that he wants to be an arson investigator and is currently a sophomore majoring in fire science and minoring in criminal justice at the University of New Haven.
There have been 18 suspicious fires in Plymouth since March and Fennessy’s attendance at every one had already raised the arson investigators’ interest in him. On Thursday, while they were interviewing him in conjunction with two recent fires at his own home, the investigators installed a GPS device on Fennessy’s car. Later that night they followed him via the tracking device and caught him setting a barn on fire.
He has confessed to several of the area arsons so far. (And no doubt will be missing several of his fire science classes at the university…..FG)
The Bristol Press has the complete STORY.
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