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Alberto Peralta-Gomez

VIDEO: Basement Tenant Charged With Torching Paterson Apartment Building VIDEO: Basement Tenant Charged With Torching Paterson Apartment Building
Video: Basement Tenant Charged With Torching Paterson Apartment Building PATERSON, N.J. – A Paterson man was charged with starting an arson fire overnight Sunday in an occupied city apartment building. City firefighters contained the 1 a.m. three-alarm blaze to the basement of the 11-unit building at 50 Clinton Street, where Alberto Peralta-Gomez lived, and an adjoining apartment. Alberto Peralta-Gomez, 23, who was promptly arrested, had set the fire in one of his closets, authorities said. No injuries were reported. Gomez was being held in the Passaic County Jail pending a detention hearing Monday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson on charges of…