Man charged with arson in fire at Washington Elementary School

A Salem man faces felony arson charges after investigators say he lit a fire on the outside wall of Washington Elementary School in northeast Salem on July 9.
Javier J. Venegas-Quinones, 27, was charged July 11 with first-degree arson in Marion County Circuit Court.
School surveillance captured video and still images of a man lighting a towel on fire and placing it at the southeast corner of the school, located at 3165 Lansing Ave. N.E.





