Man Admits on TV to Setting House on Fire

A man on the scene of a roaring house fire in Rockville, Maryland, approached a news crew Wednesday and confessed to setting the home ablaze. Although the man calling himself Carlos provided ABC7 News with the unsolicited admission, detectives said he went quiet at the police station, requesting a defense attorney. Police later arrested and charged him and call ABC7's on-camera interview a crucial piece of evidence. No one was injured in the Wednesday afternoon fire to the two-story residence, which most likely a total loss.

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