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Hotel resident arrested after starting fire in room

Published:October 6, 2009, 6:52 AM

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Updated: August 21, 2010, 2:22 AM

A 48-year-old resident of the Lafayette Hotel learned a valuable lesson Sunday: Don’t place a lighted crack pipe in your shirt pocket.

Central District Officers said Efrain Rosado’s misadventure began when he tried to smoke crack cocaine at about 9:30 a. m. Sunday in his third-floor room in the ornate Washington Street structure.

Rosado placed the lit crack pipe in his shirt, which caught on fire, prompting Rosado to take off the burning shirt and shove it into a garbage can.

This, perhaps not surprisingly, caused the garbage can to catch on fire. Firefighters called to the scene broke down the door to the room and extinguished the modest blaze.

Police Officer Deidre Carswell arrested Rosado on charges of arson, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.

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