Arson Suspect Wanted for Three Lower Manhattan Fires, Another on Train

The NYPD released these images of the arson suspect wanted for setting four fires on Jan. 10, three in Lower Manhattan.

Police are looking for an arson suspect they say set fires in three Downtown locations, and another, in a subway car in Queens, in the early morning of Jan. 10. Photos and video of the suspect were released on Wednesday.

NYPD video of arson suspect setting fire on a Queens train, next to a sleeping passenger.

The suspect, shown wearing a face covering and heavy dark jacket, is believed by police to have first started a fire that damaged a parked police car outside 254 Broadway around 2:20 a.m., then proceeded to 14 Murray Street where, at 2:35 a.m., he set a fire that damaged an unoccupied vehicle. Twenty minutes later, near the Brooklyn Bridge City Hall Train station, police say the suspect lit a paper cup on fire and threw it into a garbage can. At 3:40 a.m., inside a northbound “J” train at the Woodhaven, Queens, station, the suspect is shown in a video, lighting a fire to garbage next to a sleeping passenger. No injuries were reported. 

The incidents are being investigated by the NYPD's Arson and Explosion Unit.

Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-8477 or log on to the Crime Stoppers website here [1].