KALAMAZOO TWP, Mich — Police arrested a woman’s ex-husband early Monday after he allegedly broke into her home and set a fire in her bedroom.
At 12:12 a.m., the Portage Department of Public Safety was dispatched to the Timberwood Crossing Apartments on Ivywood Street for a report of smoke. Police evacuated the neighbors temporarily, went inside the empty apartment, and extinguished a fire in the main bedroom.
They then found that the door had been kicked in, the apartment had been ransacked, and the fire had been set.
Once the 33-year-old woman who lives there arrived home, she told police that she had recently received threats from her ex-husband. The ex-husband then called her and threatened to commit suicide.
Next, officers from Kalamazoo Township and Kalamazoo County joined Portage Public Safety officers to go to the 37-year-old man’s Kalamazoo Township home. He was arrested without incident and lodged at the Kalamazoo County jail pending charges of home invasion and arson of a dwelling.
