ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, February 6, 1996 TAG: 9602060068
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
A Roanoke man was charged Monday with setting more fires in and around his Patterson Avenue Southwest neighborhood.
Phillip V. Orren, who last month was charged with setting one of his neighbor's homes on fire, was indicted Monday on seven additional arson charges.
Phillip V. Orren, 20, was charged last month with arson in connection with a fire that damaged the home of James Glass in the 800 block of Patterson Avenue. On Monday, Orren was indicted on seven additional arson charges.
Glass was sleeping Jan. 23 when his house caught fire about 11 p.m. No one was injured, but the blaze caused an estimated $10,000 in damage.
Shortly after he was charged with that offense, Orren became a suspect in a number of suspicious fires that plagued the Patterson Avenue area in recent months.
A grand jury that met Monday in Roanoke Circuit Court charged him with setting fire to an additional six buildings - three more on Patterson and others on Campbell Avenue, 10th Street and 12th Street Southwest - between Nov. 21 and Jan. 21. Orren also is charged with setting a grass fire during the same period.
Authorities have said Glass' home was the only one occupied when set on fire.
Orren, who was being held Monday in the Roanoke City Jail, is scheduled to appear in General District Court for a preliminary hearing Feb.14.
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