Cambridge Police report arresting a man who set a bush on fire in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Avenue early yesterday - and also charged him for a dumpster fire in an alley off Mount Auburn and Athens streets the day before.
According to police, officers responding to a report of a burning bush around 4:30 a.m. found Francis Haugh, 43, of Cambridge, standing next to a smouldering bush with a lighter in his hand. Officers also found "multiple piles of trash that had been burned; one pile was located on top of an electrical outlet."
As firefighters doused the various piles, police took Haugh into custody for both the Mass. Ave. fires and for a fire in a church dumpster off Mount Auburn Street around 8:20 p.m. on Sunday. He was formally charged with four counts of burn personalty, in which the violator is alleged to have placed flammable material next to a building in an attempt to set the material and then the building on fire.
Innocent, etc.
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Turkey Territory
By Pete X
Tue, 01/31/2023 - 1:47pm
Turkeys are rampant around there, I'm surprised the TLF let him set fire to one of their favorite haunts without a squawk.
Your honor...
By Friartuck
Tue, 01/31/2023 - 3:24pm
"It was a Kate Bush and I was just running up that hill."
Headline got me lollin, good
By anon
Tue, 01/31/2023 - 3:57pm
Headline got me lollin, good work adamg
Similar reports recently
By Robert Winters
Tue, 01/31/2023 - 5:16pm
There were similar reports recently in both Central Square and Harvard Square a week or so ago. I wonder if it's the same person.
I hate answering my own question, but ...
By Robert Winters
Tue, 01/31/2023 - 5:22pm
April 11, 2022:
Francis Haugh, 43, 240 Albany Street in Cambridge, was placed under arrest at Cambridge Street on warrants issued out of the Roxbury District Court on a charge of Burning Personality and the other out of the Cambridge District Court charging him with Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon and Possession of a Class B Substance.
Oct 3, 2021:
Francis Haugh, 42, 240 Albany Street in Cambridge, was charged Possession of a Class B Substance - Crystal Methamphetamine. Officers conducting a drug investigation and found Haugh in possession of a baggy of suspected crystal methamphetamine.
For those who don't know, 240 Albany Street is the BayCove "Wet Shelter" for active alcoholics (and apparently active drug abusers).
There's more
By dan r
Tue, 01/31/2023 - 9:00pm
5:04 AM (!!!) 10/06/21 Francis Haugh, arson, 19 Jersey Street
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