A Pennsylvania man was arrested and held without bail after he allegedly attempted to blow up his own home by leaving lit candles inside after causing a gas leak.
Neil Yetsko, 39, reported a gas leak in his Plum, Pennsylvania, home on Nov. 16, a day after he left town. According to a criminal complaint obtained by the Plum Advance Leader, he also left two candles lit inside. Workers from a local gas company, Peoples Gas, responded to the scene and made their way inside. They smelled the gas and proceeded to shut off the home’s gas and electric before calling firefighters to the scene.
Yetsko reportedly showed up at the scene later that day. But his story about the gas leak reportedly kept changing — and the fire marshal was compelled to call police after witnessing Yetsko’s allegedly strange behavior.
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After Allegheny County Fire Marshal Don Brucker alerted police to Yetsko, detectives started questioning him. In their first interview with Yetsko on Nov. 18, he reportedly claimed that he may have accidentally caused the gas leak when he moved the stove in order to clean it after spilling food on it. He also allegedly said that he found out about the gas leak through a friend who had stopped by his house while he was out of town on Nov. 16, the day he reported the leak…