Teh One Who Knocks
10-30-2011, 10:57 AM
By Karen Voyles - Ocala Star-Banner Staff writer
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Two managers of a Domino's Pizza restaurant in Lake City have been charged with arson in connection with a fire that gutted a Papa John's Pizza location.
Late Friday, police said they were still looking for an ignition device that the men claimed they made but did not use to start the fire. Instead, the possibly still active device may be lying alongside Interstate 75, police said.
The fire was discovered Oct. 20 shortly before 3 a.m. at the Papa John's Pizza at 2815 NW U.S. 90. By the time the blaze had been brought under control, the business had been gutted, according to Lake City Police Department spokesman Capt. John Blanchard.
Police investigator Paul Kash immediately began working with the State Fire Marshal's Office, and the fire was ruled an arson a short time later, police said.
As leads about the fire began filtering into the police department, investigators Kevin Johns and Patrick Ross began working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the case.
On Thursday, police arrested Sean Everett Davidson, 23, of 1623 SW Brim St. in Lake City, on an arson charge. In a news release about Davidson's arrest, police said he confessed to setting the business on fire.
Investigators interviewed another Domino's manager on Friday, Bryan David Sullivan, 22, of 2372 W. U.S. 90 in Lake City, and then arrested him on an arson charge.
Police said Sullivan's motive was that the Domino's location he was managing would see an increase in business if the Papa John's restaurant was put out of business.
Both men were booked into the Columbia County jail.
Police said that, during an interview, the suspects said they made an ignition device by using about an eight-inch-long clock, a 9-volt battery, one golf-ball-size amount of black powder gunpowder, and a plastic bag.
The suspects told police they dismantled the device before throwing it out of the vehicle they were riding in on I-75. Davidson and Sullivan told police they could not remember where they were when they threw it from the vehicle, but that it was probably between U.S. 90 in Lake City and Newberry Road in Gainesville.
Police are urging anyone who may spot an unusual or strange device along the interstate to avoid touching it and to call 911.
Specialists from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives have told the police department that if the device were ignited, it will likely flash instead of explode, but that it still has the potential to seriously injure or maim.
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Two managers of a Domino's Pizza restaurant in Lake City have been charged with arson in connection with a fire that gutted a Papa John's Pizza location.
Late Friday, police said they were still looking for an ignition device that the men claimed they made but did not use to start the fire. Instead, the possibly still active device may be lying alongside Interstate 75, police said.
The fire was discovered Oct. 20 shortly before 3 a.m. at the Papa John's Pizza at 2815 NW U.S. 90. By the time the blaze had been brought under control, the business had been gutted, according to Lake City Police Department spokesman Capt. John Blanchard.
Police investigator Paul Kash immediately began working with the State Fire Marshal's Office, and the fire was ruled an arson a short time later, police said.
As leads about the fire began filtering into the police department, investigators Kevin Johns and Patrick Ross began working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the case.
On Thursday, police arrested Sean Everett Davidson, 23, of 1623 SW Brim St. in Lake City, on an arson charge. In a news release about Davidson's arrest, police said he confessed to setting the business on fire.
Investigators interviewed another Domino's manager on Friday, Bryan David Sullivan, 22, of 2372 W. U.S. 90 in Lake City, and then arrested him on an arson charge.
Police said Sullivan's motive was that the Domino's location he was managing would see an increase in business if the Papa John's restaurant was put out of business.
Both men were booked into the Columbia County jail.
Police said that, during an interview, the suspects said they made an ignition device by using about an eight-inch-long clock, a 9-volt battery, one golf-ball-size amount of black powder gunpowder, and a plastic bag.
The suspects told police they dismantled the device before throwing it out of the vehicle they were riding in on I-75. Davidson and Sullivan told police they could not remember where they were when they threw it from the vehicle, but that it was probably between U.S. 90 in Lake City and Newberry Road in Gainesville.
Police are urging anyone who may spot an unusual or strange device along the interstate to avoid touching it and to call 911.
Specialists from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives have told the police department that if the device were ignited, it will likely flash instead of explode, but that it still has the potential to seriously injure or maim.