DENNIS – Dennis firefighters responded to a fully involved shed fire on Windward Road at Lower County Road about 3 AM. Two houses reportedly suffered some damage from the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation as there was an earlier shed fire Tuesday night.
From Dennis Police: On September 19, 2023 at 9:16 PM, the Dennis Police Department received multiple 911 calls reporting a large fire in the area of Lower County Road and Murphy Road in West Dennis. Officers responded and found a shed at the rear of a property on Lower County Road was on fire which the Dennis Fire Department was able to control and extinguish. Officers determined that the fire’s origin was suspicious so a search of the area for a possible suspect was started and continued until approximately 2:00 am.
At 3:00 AM on September 20, 2023 a 911 call was taken reporting another fire, this time at a residence on Windward Road in West Dennis, which is near the site of the first fire. DPD officers responded to the scene and found a shed on the property on fire and attempted to extinguish it but the fire had grown too large. The Dennis Fire Department arrived and quickly put out this fire. While still at this scene, a Dennis officer located a male subject on School Street in West Dennis who was identified as a suspect in the fire investigations and was subsequently arrested. He is a 28-year-old male with an address in Dedham, MA who is being charged with:
-ARSON OF DWELLING HOUSE (3 Counts)
-ARSON OF DWELLING HOUSE, ATTEMPTED (3 Counts)
-B&E BUILDING NIGHTTIME FOR FELONY (2 Counts)
-MOTOR VEH, MALICIOUS DAMAGE TO c266 §28(a)
-DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY -$1,200, MALICIOUS c266 §127 (3 Counts)
-BURNING A BUILDING
and is scheduled to be arraigned in the Orleans District Court today.
A house to house canvass by Dennis PD Detectives and Officers in the area where the two fires took place resulted in additional crime scenes being identified.
The Dennis Police Department was assisted in this investigation by the following agencies:
• Massachusetts State Police
• Yarmouth Police Department
• Harwich Police Department
• Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office-Criminal Investigations Division
