A Bridgewater Township man was charged with arson last week, over two years after he lit three cars on fire at the home of a former friend, prosecutors said.
Mason A. Pagnotta, 21, was arrested last Thursday on two counts of second-degree aggravated arson from an incident in January 2016.
Investigators learned that Pagnotta had given a resident of a Garrettson Road home "an expensive gift" that he wanted returned to him after their friendship ended.
The gift was never returned, the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office said.
Nearby surveillance video captured footage of Pagnotta's car, a 2004 Mitsubishi vehicle, outside the friends's home in the early morning hours of January 18, 2016.