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Seattle, WA – A rioter who torched five Seattle Police Department (SPD) patrol vehicles during a violent uprising last year has pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge. Margaret Aislinn Channon, 26, “used aerosol cans as a blowtorch” to set the five patrol vehicles ablaze as they were parked in the area of Pine and Sixth on May 20, 2020, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Western District of Washington Office. Video footage captured the arsons, as well as images of Channon looting clothing and other items from various stores, according to court documents. Investigators with the...

A woman from Tacoma was arrested Thursday morning and faces five federal counts of arson in connection to burning five Seattle Police Department vehicles during George Floyd protests. Margaret Aislinn Channon, 25, was arrested at her Tacoma home for allegedly setting five patrol vehicles on fire that were parked in the area of Sixth and Pine. U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran said the 25-year-old was caught on multiple cameras May 30 using an accelerant lit like a blowtorch to start fires in five police vehicles. “I commend the painstaking work of law enforcement using a variety of images to identify...