Brazil Seeking Seattle Fire Suspect
A Brazilian court has issued an arrest warrant for the man accused of setting a January warehouse fire that killed four Seattle firefighters, a newspaper reported.
The arrest document for Martin Pang was prepared by a U.S. attorney in Seattle and was recently agreed upon by U.S. State Department and Brazilian government officials, a legal source told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The arrest warrent for Pang, who reportedly is living near a small resort in Brazil, will be circulated among various police agencies by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, the P-I reported Tuesday.
Federal agents have pursued Pang, 39, but have no power to arrest him in the Latin American country.
Pang, 39, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder after an arson fire in which four firefighters died Jan. 5 at Mary Pang’s Food Products Inc., a warehouse owned by Pang’s parents.