A man accused of burning down four homes in the Pocono Mountains was arrested in New York City with a truck full of nitrous oxide.
Sean McDermott, 36, of Brookhaven, Long Island faces a host of charges, including resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of noxious material, police said.
U-Haul full of laughing gas canisters
The NYPD received an alert Wednesday from police in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for U-Haul box truck driven by a male suspect that might be headed to New York City, police sources told CBS News New York. McDermott was wanted for arson in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The truck was spotted on 28th Street and Madison Avenue Wednesday night. The NYPD Bomb Squad responded and found the truck contained 52 canisters of nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, police sources said…