A 35-year-old man accused of intentionally setting nine cars and a home on fire in the Bywater early this week was identified and tracked with the help of the Project NOLA camera network and arrested while working at a legendary Bourbon Street bar, according to court documents.
Kyle Thomsen, a Bywater resident, was initially arrested Tuesday night while working behind the bar at Old Absinthe House, New Orleans Fire Department Investigator Laval Franklin wrote in Thomsen’s arrest affidavit.
Multiple Bywater residents provided home surveillance footage that showed a man walking along residential streets and pulling on car door handles, Franklin said. He entered the unlocked cars and lit them on fire before “casually walking away from the scene,” according to Franklin…