{"id":92300,"date":"2019-10-08T00:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-professor-arrested-in-connection-with-city-market-fire\/"},"modified":"2019-10-08T00:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:52:31","slug":"fort-lewis-college-professor-arrested-in-connection-with-city-market-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-professor-arrested-in-connection-with-city-market-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lewis College professor arrested in connection with City Market fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Fort Lewis College associate professor was arrested on suspicion of arson for setting tortilla chips on fire Saturday at south City Market, forcing the grocery store to close.<\/p>\n<p>Cmdr. Ray Shupe said Bradley Todd Clark, 47, was arrested around 10:45 p.m. Sunday in connection with first-degree arson, a Class 3 felony.<\/p>\n<p>Around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/296932-suspected-arson-shutters-south-city-market-until-sunday-afternoon\">authorities received a report of a fire at City Market<\/a>, located at 6 Town Plaza, which originated in aisle 7. Fire investigators determined a bag of tortilla chips was set on fire, which caused the sprinklers to go off.<\/p>\n<p>City Market remained closed until around 2 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Shupe said video surveillance was obtained that showed a male suspect starting the fire. The man then went to the self-check-out machine to purchase items, using a debit card and a City Market value card that authorities said belonged to Clark.<\/p>\n<p>A search warrant was issued for Clark\u2019s home Sunday, and he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4bd2fc94-7ba1-4c15-97af-63b5b2b2b73d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Clark\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Clark<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Clark did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Savage, spokeswoman for FLC, said Clark has been placed on administrative leave \u201cdue to the serious nature of his arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark joined FLC in 2006, Savage said. He teaches in the political science department.<\/p>\n<p>Shupe said Clark was arrested a few years ago for arson after he set a dumpster on fire.<\/p>\n<p>City Market had not given authorities a total for damages as of Monday afternoon. Store managers previously told <em>The Durango Herald<\/em> the fire was contained to the dry goods aisle, and store employees worked with health inspectors to identify all the food that is safe to sell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire itself wasn\u2019t really big from what I understand,\u201d Shupe said. \u201cBut it set sprinklers off, which created more damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fire was doused by water from a sprinkler head, and no one was injured, authorities previously said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say suspect has previous arson case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5964,5812,5831,5737,5736,5735,5741,5817],"tags":[741,1480,1065,28,29,4259],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arson","category-durango-fire-protection-district","category-durango-police-department","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","category-newsletter-sign-up","tag-arson","tag-durango-fire-protection-district","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-newsletter-sign-up"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92300"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}