According to State Fire Marshal reports, two men were arrested for separate arson attempts involving children in the past week.
On Friday around 3 a.m., firefighters responded to a house fire in Mamou, where a mobile home was set on fire. According to the report, 33-year-old James Rozas walked into the home and announced to the people inside the home at the time, a woman and her three children, that he had set the house and a nearby vehicle on fire.
The four managed to escape the mobile home unharmed. Police arriving at the scene saw Rozas, wearing only a hoodie sweatshirt and naked from the waist below, fleeing the scene with a gun.
Investigators ruled the mobile fire and the vehicle fire were intentional.
Rozas was found in Kinder after a collaborative search effort between six agencies, including the State Fire Marshal department, Coushatta Tribal Police and Louisiana State Police.