A former elected D.C. official has been indicted on charges he caused one of the most destructive forest fires in Minnesota history, one that lasted two weeks and consumed nearly 120 square miles.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused Stephen G. Posniak, of the District of Columbia, of setting fire to a trash can at a Ham Lake campsite in northern Minnesota, leaving without completely putting out the flames and then giving false statements to investigators.
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