Four people were with the 18-year-old man accused of setting a Bellevue mosque on fire last month and tried to stamp out the small fires he set, according to charging documents filed Friday.
Now Carlos Daniel Diaz-Cruz is charged with first-degree arson for the blaze that engulfed the Islamic Center of the Eastside the afternoon of March 21.
Authorities determine that fire was not a hate crime.
The fire at the mosque, located at 14700 Main Street, extended from the first floor to the roofline and damaged every room in the building, according to fire investigators. The mosque had been boarded up and fenced in since a January 2017 arson. It was structurally unsafe for anyone to enter the building, authorities claimed.