A Fort Worth Man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison
for the May 2018 Hulen Mall arson, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern
District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
In July, Craig Michael Tezeno, 46, of Fort Worth, Texas,
pleaded guilty to igniting several Molotov cocktails inside two department
stores in Fort Worth’s Hulen Mall.
According to court documents, Tezeno admits he lit a rag
stuffed into a glass bottle filled with gasoline and placed it on the floor of
Dillard’s department store on May 11. Later that same day, he lit a similar
device inside a Sears. He returned to the
same Sears a week later and ignited a third device, hoping to start a fire and
damage the store.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fort Worth
Police Department investigated the case, with assistance from the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, the Fort Worth Fire Department’s
Arson Investigations Unit, the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, and
FBI Task Force Officers from the Tarrant County Sherriff’s Office, the
Arlington Police Department, the Naval Criminal Investigation Service, the
Department of Homeland Security, and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Weimer prosecuted the case.
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