Maryland man 'set fire to Domino's using containers of feces' after asking for free food

A man from Maryland has been arrested after he allegedly set fire to a Domino's pizza store using feces .

George W. Cook, 59, was seen breaking into a vehicle at a nearby auto reair shop before he then moved on to the pizzeria where he started a fire according to law enforcement officials . Cook set alight the back of the store in Westmister, Maryland on Saturday morning (August 3).

Just before the arson attack, a witness saw him breaking into vehicles at Superior Car Care on Manchester Avenue , the Office of the State Fire Marshal has claimed. At 6.30 am on Saturday The Westminster Fire Department and surrounding departments responded to a call of a reported building fire at the 400 block of Baltimore Blvd.

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Firefighters found a fire at the rear of the Domino's store upon arrival at the scene. They worked to successfully contain the fire within minutes, subsequently asking the Office of the State Fire Marshal to investigate.

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Investigators attended the scene to determine the cause of the fire, at which point the witness made himself known to the authorities and reported that he had witnessed Cook breaking into vehicles at the auto repair shop. A trooper who was assisting the fire investigators responded to the report immediately and discovered cook entering another vehicle.

Cook was then detained by the trooper, with law officials then discovering that he had previously been arrested by Westminster Police in recent weeks after he was caught setting small fires within the city limits. All of the previous fires had been ignited in a similar style to the one at the Domino's branch.

Bizarrely, Cook lit his fires by putting feces into bags or boxes and then setting them alight. During the investigation a manager from the Domino's store informed Deputy State Fire Marshals that cook had been in the store earlier that week asking for free food and that when his request was denied by staff he got angry and kicked over a trash can and was asked to leave.

Cook has been charged with second-degree arson, first and second-degree malicious burning, and malicious destruction of property over $1,000. Westminster Police Department also charged him with rogue and vagabond and theft under $100 and he is now being held without bond at Carroll County Detention Center.

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