AUSTIN (KXAN) – A 22-year-old Austin man has been charged with arson after authorities said he attempted to set a CapMetro bus on fire before being arrested at a North Austin transit center.
Daniel Patrick Donaldson was charged with second-degree felony arson and booked into the Travis County Jail on July 8, according to court records.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed by CapMetro Police, officers were dispatched around 9:42 a.m. July 7 to the Tech Ridge Transit Center, 900 Center Ridge Drive, for reports of a man causing a disturbance and refusing to leave CapMetro property. Dispatchers advised officers the man had also been involved in an earlier incident in which he allegedly attempted to set a CapMetro bus on fire…