Arson suspected in afternoon grass fire
HOUSTON
Witnesses told authorities they saw 53-year-old Joseph Lavegner setting fires about 100 yards apart along the service road of Beltway 8 near US90A, according to a Missouri City Police Department press release. Witnesses immediately contacted police and firefighters extinguished the flames.
At the height of the fire, about a quarter of an acre was burning.
Lavegner has been charged with second-degree arson.