Man accused of setting fire to woman's home in north Raleigh
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Police have charged a 50-year-old Raleigh man with second-degree arson, assault on a female, and communicating threats after a fire at a north Raleigh home Wednesday.
As ABC11 first reported, the blaze happened around 10 a.m. on Charny Drive at North New Hope Road.
Pictures from Chopper 11 showed how firefighters cut holes in the roof of the two-story home to get at the flames.
In a written protection order filed with a judge later Wednesday, homeowner Gloria Hendrickson alleges 50-year-old Joe Edward Campbell came into her home around 4 a.m. that morning and grabbed her by the arms causing bruises.
The night before, he allegedly threatened to burn the house down, and back on Sept. 6, he punched her in the face.
In Hendrickson's written complaint, she says Campbell ripped the phone out of the wall Wednesday morning when he came into the house and she used her cell phone to call police.
"He told me if I leave him, he would burn down the house. He did today around 9:45 a.m." she wrote.
