A homeless career criminal was arrested Wednesday for allegedly setting the massive four-alarm weekend blaze that killed one person in a Bronx high-rise – by ripping a stove out of the wall, rupturing the gas line, cops and sources said.
Samuel Calderon, 55, faces multiple charges – murder, manslaughter, assault, burglary, petit larceny, criminal contempt and harassment – in the early Saturday fire that killed Ronald McAllister, 60, a resident of the building within the Boston Secor Houses complex, police said.
Calderon is accused of dismantling a stove inside an apartment, which caused gas to leak out and ultimately sparked the inferno, law enforcement sources said.
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