Updated: November 9, 2017

A COLUMBIA MAN IS ARRESTED AFTER SETTING FIRE TO HIS OWN HOME ON TUESDAY EVENING.  ACCORDING TO MEDIA REPORTS, EMERGENCY PERSONNEL WERE DISPATCHED TO GRAHAM STREET IN COLUMBIA AROUND 7:30.  WHEN OFFICERS ARRIVED THEY FOUND RICHARD PATRICK OUTSIDE THE HOME THAT WAS FULLY ENGULFED.  PATRICK CONFESSED TO HAVING SET THE PLACE ON FIRE, SITING HE WAS TIRED OF HIS BROTHER BRINGING HOMELESS DRUG ADDICTS INTO THE HOME AS THE REASON.  ALL OCCUPANTS OF THE RESIDENCE GOT OUT SAFELY AND WERE ALLEGEDLY GIVEN FIVE MINUTES TO DO PRIOR TO IT BEING SET ON FIRE.  PATRICK IS IN JAIL ON 100 THOUSAND DOLLARS BOND.