Posted on 01/05/2018 2:21:42 PM PST by Red Badger
Roy Moore accuser Tina Johnson lost her home Tuesday in a fire that is now under investigation by the Etowah County Arson Task Force.
Tina Johnson, who first came to public notice for accusing Senate candidate Roy Moore of grabbing her in his office in the early 1990s, said her home on Lake Mary Louise Road in Gadsden caught fire Tuesday morning.
After neighbors and some utility workers called 911 shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Lookout Mountain Fire Department responded to the scene. By the time the flames were extinguished, Johnson and her family had lost everything they owned.
"I am devastated, just devastated," said Johnson on Friday morning. "We have just the clothes on our backs."
Nobody appears to have been harmed in the blaze; Johnson and her husband were at work, and her grandson was at school.
"That fire is still under investigation by the Etowah County Arson Task Force," said Natalie Barton, public information officer with the Etowah County Sheriff's Department. "A suspect of interest is being spoken to. But there have been no charges, to my knowledge, related to the fire at this time."
Barton later released a statement, saying, "The ongoing investigation does not lead us to believe that the fire is in any way related to Roy Moore or allegations made against him. More details will be released when warrants are obtained."
According to Johnson and neighbor Kevin Tallant, other neighbors witnessed a young man who had a history of public intoxication walking around the house before and during the blaze.
"He's been trouble in the neighborhood for a while," said Tallant, who lives across the street from Johnson and her family. He got a call from another neighbor that morning who said smoke was coming from the home and that somebody might be inside.
"I threw on my coveralls and took off down the driveway," he said. His wife called 911 at 8:26 a.m. but the dispatcher said they'd already received a call about the fire. "I got up there," he said, "and (the fire) was already pretty well started. When the fire department got there, I started helping them."
Johnson said she has not yet heard from law enforcement how or why the fire started, except that it started at the back of the house.
She said a woman neighbor told her that the young man in question approached her as she was getting in her car that morning and asked if she thought Johnson's house was going to burn. The neighbor didn't know what he was talking about, she said, because flames weren't visible at the time.
Johnson and her family are currently living in a motel. On Friday morning, she was headed to Wal-Mart to purchase toiletries and other necessities. She said she is thankful for good neighbors, who have rallied around the family.
"My neighbors are just heartbroken, too," she said. "They're pulling together and helping us out."
Tallant said the Johnsons are good neighbors. He'd been over at her house recently, sharing some turnip greens.
"She's a super good neighbor," he said. "I like people like that. I hope they build back there."
Updated 1/5/2018 to include additional statements from the Etowah County Sheriff's Department.
Well Bitch, consider yourself lucky. Had you dropped a dime on the Clintons, you’d be suffering from a case of Arkancide.
Judge Roy Moore, in association with Donald Trump and the Russians, have been plotting to start this fire for more that 30 years. Actually more than 3 years before he even knew who this person was. He (they)are so devious.
I say 75% chance this is an inside job.
MSM spent a lot of news time reporting this just to dredge up all the Roy Moore accusations again.
Then they admitted the culprit was a local troublemaker with a problem attitude in the town.
I think it was a different liar who had the forged/photoshopped yearbook.
Still not guilty, I see...
Oh, yeah. Sounds like something straight off of CNNCBSMSNBC.
It also might have been set to cause sympathy for the accuser and to point a finger at Judge Moore...
and conveniently for the insurance...
:)
Leftists make a point to push good people beyond their limits.
If these people get control again, you will not have a country. Enough said.
My first thought, as well. Place looked like it was a dump before the fire.
People that set their own houses on fire almost always make one big mistake. They remove keepsakes and family pictures. No family pictures = arson every time.
It’s possible that with the really cold weather, it could have been a chimney fire.
Thank you for saying what I'm thinking.
There are so many real causes that you can donate to, but whenever something is just too "pat" or fits a liberal narrative, I get suspicious about these Go Fund Me campaigns.
Not only do they seem like payoffs or bribes, I've read where (other, non-victims) people will set them up to scam people, and make some easy, untraceable cash.
I'd wager that an audit of Go Fund Me would reveal a LOT of subterfuge.
To bolster my point, when the Christian business owners who got dinged for "discrimination" against gays set up accounts, they got shut down, post haste.
She set the fire, or had someone do it for her.
She will claim the insurance and start a gofundme sight and rake it tons of money from libtards that support her lying ass.
First thing I thought of, as well. She may have expected a larger payday and it did not happen.
I hope it was not and that the person(s) responsible are caught.
Playing with matches, little girl?
That's a real thing? What's the story with her?
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