A 41-year-old Allentown man is sought on charges he set his own car on fire along a Bethlehem street, city police report.
Angel Rosa, of the 300 block of North Sixth Street, just after 11:30 p.m. May 14 parked the tan Cadillac STS along the curb in the 1800 block of Livingston Street, police said after viewing surveillance video. The car had right front end damage, police said.
A bearded 5-foot 8-inch to 5-foot 10-inch tall man -- court papers say Rosa is 5 feet 10 inches tall -- opened the trunk and then took clothes from there and changed into them, police said. The man believed to be Rosa appeared to take photos of the damage to the car, police said.
The man makes a phone call and a woman drives up, police said. After they briefly speak, he takes some things from the Cadillac and puts a plastic bag into the woman’s vehicle, police said. She drives off, police said.
The man goes back to the trunk of the car, takes out a one-gallon gasoline container and pours the fuel inside the driver’s side of the car and on the trunk before returning the container to the trunk, police said. He next tosses a flaming piece of paper or cloth into the car, police said. As he walks out of camera range, the glow of the fire can be seen, police said.
The fire was mostly contained by the Bethlehem Fire Department to the driver’s seat and center console, police said. Documents in the car showed Rosa was the owner, police said.
Less than a mile north of there, the owner of a Jeep reported it was struck in the 2100 block of East Boulevard by a tan Cadillac, police said. The car fled, police said. Dark transfer paint was on the STS’s right front fender, police said after examining the car after a search warrant was served.
Rosa is charged with risking a catastrophe and possessing explosive material (both felonies) as well as dangerous burning (a summary count in the arson category) and driving while his license was suspended due to a DUI, records show.
Rosa, who admitted in a phone conversation with an investigator to driving the car that day, crashing into a yellow pole outside the Walmart along Route 191 in Bethlehem Township and parking in that block of Livingston, denies lighting the vehicle on fire, police said. The car was never reported stolen, police said.
Rosa doesn’t have a listed phone number so he couldn’t be reached for comment.
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