3 Maryland Firefighters Charged with Arson

MARDELA SPRINGS, Md. - Officials have charged three men with setting a fire near Mardela Springs in March. One man has also been charged with setting a second fire.

This vacant structure fire on March 30, 2009 is one of the fires that the three men are accused of setting. (JR Adkins/FITHP photo)

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Nineteen-year-old Joshua Maddox, 22-year-old Kyle Bradley and 28-year-old Marcus Whitelock, all of Mardela Springs, were arrested Thursday and charged with first- and second-degree arson and other offenses.

The three are accused of setting a fire on March 30 that caused $500 in damage to a vacant home.

Maddox is also charged with setting a fire on Sunday that caused $100,000 to a vacant home.

Investigators with the State Fire Marshal said the fires were set out of boredom.

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Permalink Reply by Rick K. on September 12, 2009 at 2:20pm

This is the kind of stuff that gives the rest of us a bad name!! Between arson and drugs whats next????

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Henry on September 13, 2009 at 10:15am

I live in the same county at these yahoos only about 15 mins from Mardela. In Bradley's defence where we are from carrying a weapon isnt all that odd...we live out in the country and carrying a gun or knife is the norm. However...Mardela has some special kids...and when I say kids I mean they have a lot of young ones. When you put too many young inactive brains together for too long they come up with some bad ideas. Leave it to bored rednecks to start giving us bad names.

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Permalink Reply by FETC on September 14, 2009 at 11:53am

DT - thats funny and I am too tired to re-write my opinion of the background check thread. Like I said before, most who play with fire have been in trouble with it before.