Posted on 09/14/2010 12:36:00 PM PDT by dennisw
A disgruntled employee canned from a Domino's Pizza shop in the Bronx helped himself to a slice of payback, torching two of the chain's storefronts, authorities said Monday.
"Revenge was the motive," a Fire Department source said. "Clearly, he's not a guy who cares a lot about life."
Domino's estimated the damages and lost business at the two locations totaled more than $1 million.
Jamal Thomas, 24, of the Bronx, was hit with a raft of charges.
He was training to become assistant manager after two years of working for Domino's when he was fired this summer , fire officials said.
Thomas held on to his key and uniform, and used both to exact his revenge.
He visited several stores in uniform, claiming to be part of a secret Domino's team measuring employee satisfaction. He was really scoping out targets to torch, investigators believe.
The branch he worked at, on Boston Road, burned on Aug. 22 around 6:30 a.m. It took 60 firefighters to put the fire out.
A second Domino's, on White Plains Road, caught fire around 4:42 a.m. on Sept. 5. The apartment above the store was occupied. Nobody was injured in either fire.
Both blazes were started with pizza boxes inside the stores, fire officials said. No accelerant was used.
Investigators have security video footage they say shows Thomas opening the gate of the White Plains Road Domino's with a key and leaving a short time later.
A fire marshal arrested Thomas on Friday on Nereid Ave. in his Nissan Altima.
Thomas had a .357-caliber stainless steel revolver in his glove compartment with five rounds inside. Five additional rounds were found in his car. He also had a switchblade in his pocket.
The gun is licensed in Westchester but not in New York City.
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Future mozlem.
Do you like NYC style..... crispy with the slightly charred top crust??
Jamal, Jamal, Jamal.
How ‘bout a job at the Department of Justice, Jamal?
Did he do it in 30 minutes or less?
Really...
I thought the guy was just bored and the fact he had been fired by the places he torched was a coincidence...
I am glad the news reporter cleared that up for me...
Let me guess, he was Methodist, right?
Dumb question of the day - why is there even a Domino’s pizza in that area?
Good grief, NY has REAL pizza - not the crap they foist on us in the Midwest.
Just axin’...
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His name means ‘camel’ in Arabic, so he’s just a hop, skip and jump away.
Whoever is responsible for collecting the key and uniform of a terminated employee screwed up badly.
How can this be? His mother said he was a good boy and never been in any trouble—just a regular ole saint. Oh and by the way in his photo is that a gang sign he’s flashing by any chance
His jaw was broken in the brawl, leaving him unable to eat or talk for six weeks, according to family members.
Wonder how much of this is true? His bitterness (though most certainly not his response) may have been justified.
Glad-to-be-out-of-it ping.
Amen LadyBuck, from a relocated Connecticuter to SW Colorado....New Haven baby!...Pepe's and Sally's!...Wooster Street.
FMCDH(BITS)
The Daily News needed THREE reporters to bring you this tidbit.
He ought to use his one phone call to see if there’s any hope of making assistant manager...
There’s a few homeless shelters right in the neighborhood. Always been a great ghetto hangout. Walking down from the projects to the train, there is ALWAYs action going down.
I know people that live a few blocks away and my brother works about 1/2 mile up towards Pelham Manor.
Not a place to go after dark.
Amish.
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