SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico indicted a St. Peters, Missouri, woman on Thursday for starting a fire that destroyed a bar in Cabo Rojo earlier this month .
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico said Danielle Bertothy, 36, was visiting Puerto Rico on Jan. 2 when she set fire to a commercial building housing a retailer, a restaurant, a bar, and a hotel. Hotel guests had to be evacuated due to the fire.
Online videos and other claims from Puerto Rican authorities said Bertothy was kicked out of the bar and then returned later with a gas can .
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The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms served a search warrant at Bertothy’s home on Bramblewood Drive in St. Peters last week…