‘I just wanted to be back in jail’: Court docs suggest man started fire in Kroger hours after being released from Marion County ADC

INDIANAPOLIS — A Speedway man started a fire in a grocery store just hours after he was released from the Marion County Adult Detention Center last week.

According to an affidavit for probable cause filed Friday, fire investigators with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Indianapolis Fire Department responded to the Kroger located at 680 Twin Aire Drive around 2:27 p.m. on Sept. 30. The investigators were called to the scene by an off-duty police officer who was working a security assignment for the strip mall the Kroger is located in.

The officer told IFD and IMPD’s team that he had detained a man who had caused a disturbance in the Kroger. The officer placed the man in the back of a police car after detaining him…

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