A man who is accused of setting fires in a goal shop in Chicago in the city center and a hotel in the suburbs has been sentenced to five years in prison.
On September 28, 2023, around 7 p.m., Ronald Langey reportedly used WD-40 and a lighter one to ignite pillows and blankets in the bedding department of the Target Store in 1 South State Street. He received a 10 -year imprisonment last summer before that crime.
You may remember this viral video clip of the fire:
Although no injuries had been reported, officials estimate that the damage of the store exceeded $ 100,000.
Shortly after Landley was convicted in August, prosecutors revealed that the fire was actually a distraction that was intended to attract attention from store staff, while an accomplice stole more than $ 2,000 in telephones.
In August, after the conviction of Laney, prosecutors revealed that the fire was a distraction to divert attention from store staff, while a complicit, the 38-year-old Kenneth Hasley, more than $ 2,000 in phones stable. While customers and employees evacuated or managed the fire, Hasley is said to have hidden himself in the vicinity of the lifts, used a crowbar to break into a display case and several telephones stable.
A target guard tried to stop Hasley, but public prosecutors said Hasley sprayed and fled the guard.
Even with the fire that flared elsewhere in the store, a target protector tried to prevent Hasley from leaving with the merchandise. Prosecutors said Hasley sprayed and fled the guard.
In a separate case, a large jury accused Hasley on several counts of arson and criminal damage for a fire brigade in a guest room in the Radisson Hotel Schaumburg, 1550 North Roselle Road, on November 22, 2022.
Hasley has now found to be guilty of arson in both cases. Judge Marc Martin condemned him for five years before the hotel fire and judge Mariano Reyna imposed a simultaneous five -year prison for the target incident. The prosecutors dropped the corresponding robbery disorders.
In a strange coincidence, about three months after the culprit plea of Langley and the arrest of Hasley, a woman was arrested for alleged fire in a display in the same goal shop.
Surveillance Video showed Brittny Brown, 40, who entered the store around 6 pm on November 23, 2024 and on the way to the second floor where it is said to have been brought burns, bedding, bath products, spoils and dog treats, which causes $ 672.33 to damage, according to prosecutors.
Loss prevention officers extinguished the fire and brown brown, according to a CPD report. No injuries were reported. Civil servants did not offer a motive for the incident.
Brown’s arson is still being processed.
