Update: Capitol Fire Suspect to Go Before Iowa Judge
A man arrested in Iowa who is suspected of setting fire to a car last week at the Texas Capitol is expected to appear before a judge on Friday.
Late Wednesday, the Texas Rangers contacted the Marion Police Department in Iowa after tracking the suspect, Michael Patrick Wagner, 38, to the Hawkeye State from a parking ticket he received at the Capitol complex.
"We found his car and they asked us to do a surveillance on him," Lt. Scott Elam of the Marion police said of the Texas Department of Public Safety's Texas Rangers. The Iowa police officers followed Wagner as he went shopping and observed him shoplifting inside a Walmart. "We kept following him," Elam said.
Wagner returned to a hotel, and by 10 p.m. Wednesday, Marion officers had obtained a search warrant for his hotel room and car. Wagner, who was last arrested in Marion in 2000 on a drunken driving charge, was charged with shoplifting.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/14/capitol-fire-suspect-go-iowa-judge/
Earlier threads:
DPS investigating car fire at Capitol, looking for person of interest (August 8)
Update - DPS: Arson suspect in Capitol car fire arrested in Iowa (August 13)