By Milena Malaver
Miami Herald
MIAMI — A 36-year-old lady purchased two gallons of Tampico juice, poured them out and refilled the containers with gasoline, which she used to set a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office station on hearth Friday, officers mentioned. She was cuffed and jailed.
Towana Findlay, 36, of Miami Beach, went into an Exxon gasoline station at 5 NE 79th St. round 1:20 p.m., the place she purchased the juice and pay as you go $5 for gasoline. She was then seen pouring out the juice and filling the plastic containers with gasoline, based on her arrest affidavit.
Around 2:12 p.m., Findlay walked into the MDSO Northside District Office at 799 NW 81st St., the place Deputy A. Young was working within the entrance foyer. Young mentioned he noticed Findlay enter carrying a black grocery bag and a handbag. She positioned the gadgets on a chair, then grabbed a gallon container and poured gasoline onto the center counter of the foyer and onto the ground, the affidavit states.
Deputy Young known as for backup and moved towards the foyer, the place he noticed Findlay ignite the gasoline with a purple lighter earlier than strolling out of the constructing. He adopted her and detained her.
Deputies J. Hernandez, D. Lopez, and N. Lopez arrived exterior the station and assisted Deputy Young in taking Findlay into custody.
Inside the station, Deputy J. Socarras heard the constructing alarm and went to the foyer, the place he noticed a gallon container on the ground and the ground on hearth. He grabbed a fireplace extinguisher and put out the flames.
Findlay was taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and was charged with 11 counts of second-degree tried homicide of a regulation enforcement officer, one for each deputy contained in the station, and one rely of arson.
Jail data present she was denied bond.
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