A teenager is accused of pouring gasoline on a Vancouver home and vehicle, and setting fire to the property April 27 after having an argument with some of the house’s residents.
Mycole J. Brannon, 16, of Vancouver appeared Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree arson. He was remanded to adult court because of the seriousness of the charge.
Judge David Gregerson held him today in lieu of $75,000 bail and appointed Vancouver attorney Ed Dunkerly to defend him. He is scheduled to be arraigned on the charge Friday.
Brannon and some of his friends had been involved in a verbal disturbance with several residents of the home in the 1300 block of Northeast 104th Avenue in Vancouver’s Marrion neighborhood, according to a court affidavit by Vancouver police Detective Erik Jennings.
Brannon and his friends returned to the residence at about 4:30 a.m. while most of the residents were asleep inside, and Brannon tossed gasoline on the north side of the house and ignited it with a lighter, Jennings wrote.
One of the male residents stepped out to see what was happening and saw what Brannon was doing, according to the affidavit. He chased Brannon but stopped when he saw a vehicle on fire on the north end of the property, Jennings wrote.
The flames were extinguished on the home and the car. Jennings said the damage was minimal. It’s unclear whether the residents put out the fire, but Vancouver firefighters were never called to the residence, according to the Vancouver Fire Department.
Fifteen people were inside the home at the time of the fire, Jennings wrote.
Brannon admitted to setting the fire because he was “drunk and angry,” he wrote.
No one was injured.
Brannon has no criminal history in the state, according to the Washington Courts database.
