Man Arrested in Fires at Synagogue
A man was arrested on suspicion of stealing a Torah from a synagogue and setting fires in the building, causing about $200,000 in damage, police said Thursday.
Avi Langer, 33, was arrested in Santa Clara on Wednesday. Police said they found a Torah in his possession that had been taken from the Chabad House of San Francisco.
The synagogue is on the first floor of a four-story house in the Richmond district. Earlier Wednesday, firefighters had extinguished a fire in an upstairs bedroom of the house and a second one in the basement garage.
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