NORTH NORWICH – The Chenango County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man they believe responsible for lighting a van on fire along State Highway 12 in North Norwich after beating it with a baseball bat.
Thirty-three-year-old David C. Anderson Jr., of Oxford, was arrested Saturday and charged with third degree arson, a C class felony. He was arraigned in Town of North Norwich Court and remanded to the Chenango County Correctional Facility on $25,000 bail.
According to eye witnesses, a man, now believed by police to be Anderson, pulled up next to a van that was up for sale just off of Rt. 12 in North Norwich last Thursday. Witnesses say the suspect got out of his jeep with a baseball bat and beat the van’s lights and windows before lighting it on fire and driving away.
