MAHWAH, N.J. – A 71-year-old Mahwah man was charged with torching his foreclosed house.
Everett Nathaniel Johnson was being held in the Bergen County Jail Friday, charged with aggravated arson with the knowledge of “Danger of death or bodily injury” in Thursday night’s Marion Drive fire, records show.
Mahwah police officers dispatched to the house on a welfare check saw Johnson near the garage holding a can of gasoline, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said.
Records show the house was in foreclosure, as Daily Voice reported Thursday night.