Trucker accused of torching 25 Swift vans jailed indefinitely after $200k discovered hidden beneath his sofa
The person accused of setting fireplace to a number of Swift vans throughout eight states has been jailed indefinitely after investigators found $200,000 in money duct taped to the underside of his sofa.
The Detroit Information experiences that the trucker, Viorel Pricop, set fireplace to the vans as a strategy to search revenge towards the trucking firm, which had a component in sending him to jail a number of years in the past.
Whereas investigating his residence, investigators found the $200,000 in $100 payments duct-taped beneath a sofa in Pricop’s Allen Park, Michigan home. Pricop later lied to federal court docket officers and advised them he was solely hiding $20,000 in money.
After the invention of the money and subsequent lie, U. S. Justice of the Peace Kimberly Altman concluded that Pricop is a hazard to the group and a flight threat, and he was ordered to remain in jail indefinitely on Thursday, October thirteenth.
“All of that could be very regarding and troubling to the court docket,” Altman advised Pricop.
“That exhibits a complete disregard for human life,” Assistant U.S. Legal professional Timothy McDonald advised the Justice of the Peace decide. “And an excessive quantity of hazard.”
“It’s nearly a marvel to the court docket how individuals who have been sleeping in these [trucks], and with these fires happening, that nobody was ever injured,” Altman stated.
Pricop faces between 5 and 20 years in jail if convicted of arson of property concerned in interstate commerce.
