CLAYTON – A single cigarette butt left at a 2020 fire scene has led to an arrest in the case.
After five years, the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a Clayton man linked by DNA evidence to an arson that heavily damaged an abandoned house on Loop Road.
Back on November 18, 2020, flames tore through the vacant structure just outside Clayton. Investigators from the Johnston County Fire Marshal’s Office and Johnston County Sheriff’s Office ruled the blaze as arson…