Police announced the arrest of a man that allegedly started a fire that forced guests to evacuate a hotel.
On May 11, at 12:12 p.m., the Plains Township Fire Department was called to the Mohegan Pennsylvania Casino Hotel for a reported structure fire.
According to police, officers made contact with a man on the fifth floor who was visibly distressed and later identified as 36-year-old Joseph William Bone III.
Investigators said Bone told them he was “nervous,” and that he “lit a cigarette and it fell on the bed.”
After escorting Bone out of the building, crews said they spoke with employees of the hotel who said they ran into the room to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher once the smoke alarm went off. When employees walked into the room, they said they saw the fire and a man who was saying, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”