Media Release: W.Va. State Fire Marshals arrest VA man on December arson charges

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia State Fire Marshal’s Office announced today that a Virginia man has been arrested on arson charges stemming from a residential fire in Berkeley County.

 

WVSFMO investigators arrested Robert James Wilson, 32 , of Gore, VA on Monday, June 25  and charged him with first-degree arson. Wilson is alleged to have set fire to a home on Raw Hide Dr. in Bunker Hill on Dec. 29, 2017. He was also charged with 2 counts of receiving and transferring stolen vehicles.

 

Wilson was arraigned in Berkley County Magistrate Court and is currently in Eastern Regional Jail in lieu of $15,000 bond. 

 

The arrest was made by Assistant State Fire Marshal G.A. Harms and the Berkeley Co. Sheriff’s Department.