Accused NYC serial arsonist busted again while free without bail
By Joe Marino, Amanda Woods and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
New York post
August 17, 2021
Jaden Shaw is charged with setting five separate fires on Aug. 6
An accused serial arsonist who cops said has been lighting blazes in the Big Apple since he was 10 has been busted again — while free on bail in three other cases.
Jaden Shaw, 19, is charged with setting five separate fires in Manhattan in one day on Aug. 6, including torching an NYPD van in Upper Manhattan, according to police.
“A 19 y/o arson recidivist who recently set several fires, 1 of which destroyed this NYPD van, has been arrested and charged,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said on Twitter.
“No stranger to the criminal justice system, he has multiple arrests & multiple open cases,” the commissioner said.
According to police, Shaw allegedly lit all five fires between 1:30 a.m. and 1:40 a.m., lighting garbage bags in the area and running off.
The police van was gutted by fire outside 301 W. 148th St. at 1:33 a.m. when Shaw allegedly lit a garbage bag at the scene, which erupted in flames.
Police took him into custody Monday after an FDNY fire marshal recognized the teenager from surveillance footage of the arson spree.
Shaw was charged with third- and fifth-degree arson, attempted arson and reckless endangerment and arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday.
Judge Robert Rosenthal ordered Shaw held on $25,000 cash bail or $80,000 bond and said he is to be back in court Friday, according to the DA’s office. Prosecutors wanted him held on $50,000 cash bail.
Police and sources said Shaw has 17 prior arrests dating to 2013, 11 of them on felony charges. Most of the busts were on arson charges but records show he has also been arrested for criminal mischief and false impersonation.
“What the fuck is going on?” one law enforcement source told The Post. “This guy is out, no problem, just lighting shit on fire? Fuck it, let it burn? Just out.”
Court records show that Shaw was free without bail in three other pending cases — including a 2019 arson case in which he pleaded guilty in March and was due to be sentenced.
He was also free on pending criminal mischief with property damage and a false impersonation case from May, the records show.
Shaw’s attorney could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
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