Man arrested on murder and arson charges linked to Miami house fire in August: police
Police have arrested a man who’s accused of setting a house fire in Miami that killed one person in August.
Marcus Aron Sanchez, 42, was arrested Friday after recovering in the hospital for severe burns that detectives say the Medley man received in the Aug. 18 fire, according to his arrest report.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death was homicide, but the report does not indicate how the person died.
He is being held in Miami-Dade Pre-Trial Detention Center on second-degree murder, arson and evidence tampering charges. As of Monday, a judge had not set his bond, according to jail records, and information on his legal representation was not immediately available.
Around 2 a.m., the City of Miami firefighters arrived at the fire that day and realized the source of the blaze was coming from an apartment in the back of the house, located at 3056 SW 13th Street, according to the report. When they entered the home, they found a body.
Police redacted the name of the victim in the report.
Per the report, Sanchez drove himself to Coral Gables Hospital with burns all over his body. Medical staff transferred him to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the report states.
What he told police at the hospital about the fire was redacted from the report. A law enforcement dog detected some sort of accelerant on Sanchez’s shoes, police said in their report.
That afternoon, a Miami police officer went to a Chevron gas station located at 1000 SW 27th Avenue — about three blocks from the house fire — and reviewed security camera footage.
The footage showed Sanchez fill up a 5-gallon gas tank at one of the station’s pumps and place it in the trunk of his car, according to the report.
