Fort Worth Police and the Fort Worth Fire Department have made an arrest in a string of arson fires in the southern part of town. They believe the same person set fire to five cars from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day.
“We had a serial arsonist threatening the safety and property of our citizens,” says Chief Fire Investigator David Jones.
Jones says Evan Banda, 17, set cars on fire in several neighborhoods south of I-20 starting Christmas Eve. In each case, Jones says Banda set the fires at night and walked to and from the scene so investigators could not connect one car to each fire…