Officials link trash fires to security guard
A security guard allegedly started fires at two swanky Manhattan hotels just so he could get some extra sleep. New York Fire Department officials said Mariano Barbosa Jr., 30, was sick of working the late-night shift, so he repeatedly set fire to trash in hotel halls and stairwells, forcing the buildings to be evacuated. “His mindset was that if he could do something to cast a negative light on the establishment and drive customers away it would lighten his workload,” a Fire Department source told the New York Post.
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