Recent charges from Tait’s jail registry entry
A man with a troubling history of arson arrests has been charged for a November fire that threatened Capitol Hill’s Neighbours nightclub.
David Tait has been charged with first degree arson for the Sunday night, October 2nd fire police say was set outside the Broadway club and triggered the venue’s fire alarms but fortunately caused no serious damage or injuries.
KOMO was the first to report the charge and a burst of small fires started in the area that night:
Firefighters responded and extinguished the fire before it spread to the rest of the building. About 30 minutes later, police responded to a report of a person lighting fires about a block away on 11th Ave. A bystander flagged down a Seattle police officer and reported someone had just lit a fire under a pickup truck.
When they located the suspect nearby, police say police they found a can of butane and a lighter in the suspect’s pocket.
Prosecutors says Tait has a history of fire-related incidents and was also arrested and charged with reckless burning in this October fire that damaged a unit in a Plymouth Housing building at 12th and Spruce.
Tait remains in jail on $350,000 bail.
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