MILFORD – Police moved quickly to investigate an alleged plan to burn down a building on the Milford Oval because at fire at the site could have been devastating, Capt. Chris Nervik said on Friday.
Within two days of receiving a tip about the alleged plan, Milford police charged Colleen Carr, 50, with plotting to hire someone to burn down 139 Union Square in order to collect insurance money.
Nervik said in a telephone interview Friday morning that on Tuesday, police were given a report that someone had heard about the plan and immediately began to follow up on that information.
The time between getting that report, launching the investigation and making an arrest was relatively short, the captain said, because “the potential there was pretty devastating.”
The building, home to P.C. Carr Realty, the Tasty Tobacco Shop, and two occupied apartments, is attached to another building and next door to a gas station.
“The severity of that type of (arson) in that area, in any area, really, but particularly there,” was a major concern, Nervik said.
Carr was arrested on Thursday and charged with conspiracy to commit arson, a class A felony, and witness tampering, a class B felony.
She was initially held on $75,000 cash bail and taken to Valley Street Jail.![]()
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