Toronto police have arrested a man accused of setting a person’s jacket on fire and attempting to ignite other people’s clothing at a shopping mall on the city’s east side on Dec. 29.
Toronto resident Donald McFarlane, 47, has been arrested and charged in connection with an arson investigation involving multiple attempts to set other people’s clothing on fire, the Toronto Police Service said in a Dec. 30 press release. Authorities began the investigation on Dec. 28 after McFarlane allegedly tried to light a victim’s jacket on fire on the platform at Kennedy subway station around 6:30 a.m. before fleeing the scene.
