Man facing three arson charges following Glenmore apartment blaze
Posted Nov 13, 2014 4:40 pm.
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A 35-year-old man is facing multiple arson charges, as police believe he intentionally started a fire that led to an apartment building on Glenmore Trail getting evacuated and a tenant being sent to hospital.
Orrie Dewhyte Hewson has been charged with arson-threat to human life as well as two counts of arson-damage to the property.
It was around 4 a.m. when police arrived Wednesday morning at the building in the 800 block of Glenmore Trail S.W., which was quickly evacuated and the tenant sent to hospital for smoke inhalation.
Staff Sgt. with the CPS Robbery and Arson Unit, Dave Louie, said the total damage is pegged at around $200,000.
Hewson is charged with intentionally setting fire to the suite of a woman he knew.
“I would classify it as somewhat unique,” he said. “For someone to intentionally set the apartment suite on fire and then obviously there was damage to the surrounding suites, that is not a common investigation that we do often,”
Police wouldn’t say the nature of the relationship, just that the two are known to each other.
Hewson is expected to be in court on Monday.
