Arson lodged in connection with fatal NY car crash

Published June 4, 2014 7:03am ET



CLAY, N.Y. (AP) — A 31-year-old upstate New York man has been indicted on arson charges in connection with a fire that destroyed the home of a neighbor who caused a fatal car crash.

Joshua Brennan, of Clay in suburban Syracuse, is accused of setting a fire at the home of Muhammad Baqir a little more than a week after Baqir caused a head-on crash that killed 34-year-old Meagan Patterson.

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