Man douses neighbors in gas on Christmas. He threatened to burn them alive: cops
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A Miami-Dade man promised his next-door neighbors that he’d burn their house down as they slept. Days later, he lugged gasoline to their home and doused them in the flammable liquid on Christmas, authorities said.
Ivan Cumba, 52, was charged with six counts of aggravated assault, six counts of battery and one count of resisting an officer without violence. As of Friday, he remained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records show.
A few days before Christmas, Cumba told his neighbors he was going to “spitefully and without provocation light their house on fire while they were sleeping in the middle of the night,” an arrest report read.
His neighbors, a group of six based on his criminal charges, were having a gathering in their backyard in the 2700 block of Northwest 31st Street on Dec. 25, when suddenly “out of nowhere” gasoline was thrown over the fence and on top of them from Cumba’s house, the report read.
An argument began, and Cumba shouted, according to Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies, that he intentionally threw gasoline with the “specific intent to cause serious bodily harm.”
Deputies were called and they arrested Cumba.
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