Prosecutors charged 29-year-old Victor Arias with multiple counts of criminally negligent homicide in connection with a fire that killed three people after they claim he tossed a lit cigarette into discarded cardboard in the building where he lived.
A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly fire that killed three people in Inwood earlier this month, with prosecutors charging him with criminally negligent homicide after he allegedly dropped a cigarette into a stack of cardboard boxes.
A judge granted a request by prosecutors that Victor...