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Suspected Portland Arsonist IDed After Authorities Noticed His Name Tattooed On His Back

Emily Zanotti
Suspected Portland Arsonist IDed After Authorities Noticed His Name Tattooed On His Back
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A 32-year-old man is being held in connection with setting a fire inside the Justice Center in Portland, Oregon, during a May 29 riot that began as a Black Lives Matter protest. The suspect, authorities say, was identified after investigators spotted a very distinctive back tattoo: the man’s last name.

“Thomas Schinzing faces a federal charge of using fire to maliciously damage or destroy the city and county-owned building,” Fox News reports. “The facility houses the Portland Police Bureau headquarters and the Multnomah County Detention Center, which held 289 inmates at the time of the May 29 incident.”

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