Crime & Safety

Follow Updates on the Caputo's Fire Bombing

Check back to this page for live updates as Patch reporters find out more about the man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail in the deli section of the Caputo's grocery store Sunday.

Fabian J. Torres, 24, of Sleepy Hollow has been charged with aggravated arson after allegedly throwing an incendiary device made out of a bottle filled with flammable liquid, injuring one man.

A Crystal Lake resident who was shopping there at the time, chased Torres out of the store and detained him with the assistance of an off-duty Carpentersville officer until Algonquin police arrived.

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