There are 10 article(s) tagged Arson:

• May 2025

  • Clayborn Temple fire was arson, MFD says

    The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple last month was set intentionally, the Memphis Fire Department said in an X post Wednesday afternoon.

    By Aarron Fleming May 21, 2025

• September 2024

  • Germantown police make arrest for April medical district fires

    While searching the suspect’s Neshoba North home, marijuana plants and items to manufacture and sell it were found.

    By Abigail Warren September 17, 2024

• April 2024

  • Germantown police investigating fires at Wolf River Professional Center

    Germantown police are investigating fires in Germantown’s medical-office area. Police said they are being investigated as intentional.

    By Abigail Warren April 16, 2024

• February 2023

  • MFD: Fires at three locations of tax prep business are arson

    The fires at three offices of Washington Credit and Tax Solutions were set Feb. 5 and Feb. 7 and one was captured on video.

    By Bill Dries February 13, 2023

• September 2022

  • Alleged arsonist responsible for South Memphis fires arrested

    Catilena “DC” Collier, 22, was arrested Monday, Sept. 26, according to a press release issued by the Memphis Fire Department. 

    By Julia Baker September 27, 2022

  • More details released about person of interest in possible arsons

    The Memphis Fire Department said they are looking for a 21-year-old woman named Catilena “Delina” Collier. She is described as a white female with colorful hair. 

    By Julia Baker September 23, 2022

  • Person of interest developed in series of possible arsons near Coro Lake

    The fire department is looking for a suspect named Delana Collier, who also goes by the name “DC.” 

    By Julia Baker September 21, 2022

  • Memphis Fire Department investigating series of possible arsons in Coro Lake area

    Since June, the MFD has responded to eight different fires in a neighborhood on the eastern side of Coro Lake. 

    By Julia Baker September 21, 2022

• May 2020

  • Mississippi governor condemns church fire amid virus pandemic

    Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Thursday condemned a church fire in Holly Springs that’s being investigated as an arson.

    By The Associated Press May 22, 2020

• October 2019

  • Investigators looking for similarities in church fires

    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents have been called in to investigate an arson at a vacant East Memphis church that was set on fire twice in less than four months. 

    By Yolanda Jones October 10, 2019