PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A former Montgomery County resident has been charged with starting two fires last month — one at a transmission shop where he used to work, the other at a property where he’d previously been convicted of arson .
Sean Gahagan, 56, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, is charged with multiple counts of arson and related offenses.
On Dec. 29, Upper Moreland police said Gahagan threw a cinder block through the window of JG Transmissions on Davisville Road in Willow Grove . He tried to rob the business but when he didn’t find any cash, he used brake cleaner to start a fire, which destroyed the building.
That same day, Lower Moreland police said he smashed the window of a shed behind a home on Huntingdon Pike in Huntingdon Valley, then used the brake cleaner to start a fire in the shed.
Gahagan was arrested in Lebanon County on Jan. 1 for trespassing in a church.