AVERILL PARK, NY
- New information has been released about an arson that took place in Averill Park last Sunday.
On February 12 a fire left a historic home on Route 43 in the Town of Sand
Lake uninhabitable. The Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office says that home is
owned by Janine Kruiswijk.
Police charged three people for the fire. After a joint investigation by the
Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office and Rensselaer County Fire Investigation
Unit, 20-year-old Christopher J. Felt, 18-year-old Rustin D. Atchinson, and
19-year-old Allyson J. Leavenworth, were arrested.
Felt and Atchinson are both charged with felonies of Arson in the Third
Degree, Arson in the Fourth Degree, Criminal Mischief in the Second Degree,
Reckless Endangerment First Degree, Conspiracy in the Fourth Degree, Three
counts of Aggravated cruelty to Animals, and the misdemeanor of Assault in the
Third Degree. Leavenworth
is charged with the Felony of Conspiracy in the Fourth Degree.
Christopher Felt, one of the two men charged with arson, was a tenant of the
home. There were three tenants at the time of the fire. A different tenant,
Lewis Kamp, who was soon to be the owner of the home owned three cats that were
trapped inside the home during the fire.
The homeowner Kruiswijk spoke with NEWS10 ABC and says that only one of the
three cats was found dead and the other two are unaccounted for. Kamp is still
hoping to find them alive.
NEWS10 ABC
