Homeless Man Arrested in B'klyn. Fire May Be Wrong Man
NEW YORK (AP) -- Police may have the wrong man in connection with the warehouse fire in Greenpoint, Brooklyn last month.
A contractor from Sullivan County says the man accused of starting the fire that destroyed the waterfront complex was working for him at the time of the blaze.
Zbigniew Sarna of Pond Eddy says Leszek Kuczera, who was arrested last week, was feeding horses and cleaning out a campground 85 miles upstate in early May when the warehouse went up in flames. Sarna says he brought Kuczera back to Greenpoint on May eleventh.
A police department spokesman says officials are looking into Sarna's claim.
Kuczera is being held on Rikers Island.
he fire was the city's biggest -- excluding the World Trade Center disaster -- in a decade.
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