Two ambulance agencies and a volunteer firefighter were targeted.
An employee of the Connecticut ambulance company has been arrested and charged in a series of attacks by the Molotov cocktail bar across the state targeting two emergency medical services agencies, a volunteer fire department and a private residence on the same day. .
Richard White, 37, of Torrington, Connecticut, was arrested Saturday night around 10 p.m. by Pennsylvania police officers who stopped his car on Interstate 80 near Milton, Pennsylvania.
An arrest warrant was issued for White on Saturday night, accusing him of third-degree arson and third-degree burglary. He is being held on a $ 150,000 mortgage in Pennsylvania and is awaiting extradition to Old Saybrook, Connecticut, Old Saybrook police officer Michael A. Spera told ABC News on Sunday.
“This individual targeted those we count on to save lives,” Spera said in a statement to ABC News. “Our officers worked diligently throughout the evening to search for and arrest warrants in an effort to quickly stop these violent attacks on public safety and arrest the suspect.”
It was not immediately clear whether White was holding a lawyer.
No one was injured in the attacks, Spera said.
White is an employee of the Hunters Ambulance Agency in Meriden, Connecticut, according to a statement from Capt. John Mennone of the Meriden Police Department.
White’s colleague told police he was involved in a physical altercation with another employee at about 10 a.m. Saturday after a disciplinary hearing in which he was placed on administrative leave, Mennone said.
He said police were called to the ambulance agency, but upon their arrival, White fled. Police did not release details about what White was disciplined about.
Spera told ABC News White is working as a medical technician for emergencies.
Just after 4pm on Saturday, White reappeared at Hunters Ambulance Station in Old Saybrook, where he allegedly set fire to a Molotov cocktail in a workers’ room and fled in a gray 2004 Ford Taurus, according to Mennone’s statement.
Mennone said that around 5 p.m., a car that matched the description of White’s vehicle was spotted at the Hunters Ambulance Agency in Meriden, where the occupants of the car could be seen carrying a lit Molotov cocktail to the building throw and chase.
Sunday during a news conference, ao. Paul Makuc of the Connecticut Police Fire and Explosion Unit said the attacks on the back at the Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department and at a residence about 3 miles away both took place around 6pm on Saturday.
Spera told ABC subsidiary WTNH-TV in New Haven that the residence set on fire in Roxbury is believed to be White’s orphanage.