{"id":132441,"date":"2024-02-28T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=132441"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:51:30","slug":"rhode-island-man-charged-with-setting-fires-at-predominantly-black-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=132441","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Man Charged With Setting Fires At Predominantly Black church"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-132428\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240215-ONETIMEUSE-New-Providence-RI-Shiloh-Gospel-fire-ac-431p-0802cc-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240215-ONETIMEUSE-New-Providence-RI-Shiloh-Gospel-fire-ac-431p-0802cc-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240215-ONETIMEUSE-New-Providence-RI-Shiloh-Gospel-fire-ac-431p-0802cc-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240215-ONETIMEUSE-New-Providence-RI-Shiloh-Gospel-fire-ac-431p-0802cc.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 A Rhode Island man was arrested Thursday and charged with using gasoline to set several fires around the exterior of a predominantly Black church in North Providence early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Colantonio, 34, of North Providence, was charged with maliciously damaging or destroying by means of fire or explosion a building or other real property, according to Zachary Cunha, U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-132430\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-19-at-8.44.16-AM-640x358.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-19-at-8.44.16-AM-640x358.png 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-19-at-8.44.16-AM-1280x716.png 1280w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-19-at-8.44.16-AM-160x90.png 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-19-at-8.44.16-AM-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-19-at-8.44.16-AM-1536x859.png 1536w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-19-at-8.44.16-AM.png 1562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colantonio set several fires around the exterior of the pentecostal Shiloh Gospel Temple early Feb. 11, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence, which said police and firefighters were sent to the church at 12:12 a.m. for reports of an individual trying to set fires.<\/p>\n<p>The building was vacant at the time, and the fires were quickly extinguished by members of the North Providence Police and Fire departments, investigators said. The fires caused significant property damage, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 A Rhode Island man was arrested Thursday and charged with using gasoline to set several fires around the exterior of a predominantly Black church in North Providence early Sunday morning. Kevin Colantonio, 34, of North Providence, was charged with maliciously damaging or destroying by means of fire or explosion a building or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132443,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132441\/revisions\/132443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}