Nov. 01--NEW HAVEN -- A man was arrested on arson charges after he allegedly lit his ex-wife's porch on fire when she would not give him $10, police said,
Police were first dispatched to an Elm Street residence minutes after midnight Oct. 25, said Officer David Hartman, police spokesman.
Fire Department personnel were busy putting out a fire on the back porch.
Officer Ron Ferrante interviewed a woman, who said her ex-husband recently came by asking for money to get to New York. She didn't give him any and asked him to leave, according to Hartman. He allegedly refused and she called police to have him removed. She went outside and found the porch on fire.
The woman's ex-husband, identified as Jimmy Singleton, kept calling her phone, Hartman said. Police traced the number back to Yale-New Haven Hospital and detained Singleton. He allegedly told police he set the fire. He also told the ex-wife that "it's just going to get worse" if she wouldn't help him, police said.
Singleton is charged with first-degree arson, reckless burning, and reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal trespass, all in the first degree.
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