Casino Guest Charged with Arson
One of the night banquet people at Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino reported that the woman was "very rude, very ignorant and very drunk," Assistant Chief Fire Investigator Tom Bell said Monday.
After she was given her coat and sent on her way, she allegedly set four large planters with fake foliage on fire at about 3:30 a.m., Bell said.....Continue Reading
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Firefighters responded, but the woman had left. Officials later identified her as Diane C. Wolf, 52, of Margate.
Wolf was arrested by Detective Richard Johnson and charged with aggravated arson, Bell said.
She was placed in the Atlantic County Jail on $75,000 bail, he said.
The cost of the crime - with damages and fire response - is about $10,000, Bell added.
But it could have been worse, he said.
"At that time of the morning, there's virtually nobody around," Bell said. "If the building wasn't built the way it is, and security hadn't been on the ball, we could have had a serious problem. It could have been a real big fire."
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