Date: 11-25-2018

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Case Number: 4:18-cr-00163-O

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Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Tarrant County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: Jay Weimer

Defendant's Attorney: J. Warren St. John

Description: Fort Worth, TX - Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Hulen Mall Arson

A Fort Worth Man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the May 2018 Hulen Mall arson.

In July, Craig Michael Tezeno, 46, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty to igniting several Molotov cocktails inside two department stores in Fort Worth’s Hulen Mall.

According to court documents, Tezeno admits he lit a rag stuffed into a glass bottle filled with gasoline and placed it on the floor of Dillard’s department store on May 11. Later that same day, he lit a similar device inside a Sears. He returned to the same Sears a week later and ignited a third device, hoping to start a fire and damage the store.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fort Worth Police Department investigated the case, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, the Fort Worth Fire Department’s Arson Investigations Unit, the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, and FBI Task Force Officers from the Tarrant County Sherriff’s Office, the Arlington Police Department, the Naval Criminal Investigation Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Charge:

18 U.S.C. § 844(i) ARSON
(1)

18 U.S.C. § 844(i) ARSON
(2-3)

Outcome: The defendant, CRAIG MICHAEL TEZENO, is hereby committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to be imprisoned for a term of One Hundred Twenty (120) months as to Count One of the Indictment filed on July 18, 2018. The Court did not order a fine because the defendant does not have the financial resources or future earning capacity to pay a fine.It is further ordered that the defendant pay a special assessment of $100. Supervised Release is Ordered for a term of THREE (3) years. Upon Motion of the government, all remaining Counts are dismissed, as to this defendant only. The Defendant is remanded to the custody of the US Marshal.

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