Goshen, NY – Volunteer Firefighter Arrested in Arson Cases

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    Goshen, NY – A Goshen volunteer firefighter has been charged with setting four fires, all in the village.
    In two of them, he reported them and in the other two, he was a responding fireman.

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    Goshen Village Police Chief James Watt said Michael Kohn, 18, was arrested after Det. David Conklin cracked the case while investigating a specific piece of evidence.
    Kohn was charged with four counts of arson and remanded to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.

    He is charged with setting fires to a barn at 58 John Street, to an occupied home at 113 Webster Avenue and to an unoccupied Ford Explorer while parked in a parking lot on St. James Place.
    Kohn reported the barn fire and the car fire and also responded to the other two. [Mid Hudson News]

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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    19 years ago

    To 16:
    He also fought fires……
    that he just happened to start.

    16
    16
    19 years ago

    Sorry but we don’t do that, we “fight fires”

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    19 years ago

    To 16:
    As stated in the original post, he is a firefighter.

    16
    16
    19 years ago

    Why why isn’t he a firefighter?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    19 years ago

    that’s what arsonists like to do – make a fire and then report it so they become heroes.

    scy4851
    scy4851
    19 years ago

    ehr voint shoin nisht..ehr vert a ‘yoishev’

    O.Gevald
    O.Gevald
    19 years ago

    Vie voint ehr?