The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry announced the arrest of a man accused of arson in a large grass fire.
The wildfire happened on Bryce Hyde Road in Roseland in February.
According to forestry agents, the fire started on the landowner’s property without consent. The fire spread over several acres and burned over 600 feet of a wooded fence near the road, according to a news release issued by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
18 YO Noah Steptore of Kentwood was booked into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail and faces charges of criminal trespass, simple criminal damage to property, and fire-raising on lands of another by criminal negligence in reference to the fire.
Further arrests are pending at this time, and the investigation is ongoing, according to the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.