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Boyd Gaming Corp.’s Suncoast hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
By Jackie Valley (contact) 
Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011 | 2:54 p.m.
A 28-year-old man was charged with arson after allegedly setting chairs on fire Saturday night at the Suncoast, fire officials said.
Fredric Haynes, of Las Vegas, was arrested and charged with one count of fourth-degree arson and one count of first-degree arson, said Tim Szymanski, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue spokesman.
No one was injured during the incident. The small blaze caused $500 of damage, Szymanski said.
Witnesses told fire investigators that as Haynes was on his way out the casino, he allegedly lit matches and threw them on several chairs, Szymanski said. Haynes left when one chair caught fire.
A Suncoast guest pulled the burning chair outside to the valet area, where hotel staff extinguished it, Szymanski said. Damage was confined to the chairs and a small area on the casino floor.
Metro Police, State Pardons and Parole, Suncoast security and fire investigators identified the suspect and tracked him to a downtown hotel, Szymanski said. Fire investigators found Haynes at the unidentified hotel, where he was arrested and transported to the Clark County Detention Center, Szymanski said.
Haynes remains in the detention center with bail set at $25,000. The investigation is ongoing.
Wow! A new crisis! What we need is to ban matches because they are dangerous! A new cause for the loons on the left to champion! Or maybe we need a bureaucracy that will send in inspectors to make sure all chairs are covered in fire resistant materials. The leftists will love growing the nanny-state by creating that monstrosity.
Recap:
Dude enters casino - puts player's card in the quarter-machine with 100 bucks.
Dude loses 100 bucks in 10 minutes and is furious!
Dude decides to burn some chairs.
Dude forgets he used his player's card with his name and addy in the slots.
Dude gets into his 1998 Chevy Corsica and his license plate is captured on video surveillance.
Dude is totally surprised when Metro knocks on his door!
Jerry, get a life. Not everything has to be brought back to politics. The story was about some loser who proved to be far short of normal intelligence and common sense. It never ceases to amaze me how the narcissists of the extreme fringe on either side somehow think that everything can somehow be a forum for them to express their opinion.
Casper, well stated. I'm surprised he didn't blame Obama and Reid while he was at it.
Why does this story have a picture of a semi tractor associated with it on the "news page" ?
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/
He lost a hundred bucks in ten minutes?
He must have been slow playing so he could get a 'free' drink!
He has a couple of good posts and then the nutcase comes right back out of him.
Casper/Libra: I do agree that everything doesn't need to go back to politics, but I will in the future remember that you posted that as your opinion as from what I've read on all the posts that we all read, is that the left has more of a issue with hashing politics than the right.