A Lebanon suspect has been accused of causing the Champion Mill fire in February, which destroyed a shuttered 50,000-square-foot building at the property behind the Lebanon Walgreens.
Owen Daniel Mercier, 23, was charged with second-degree arson and first-degree criminal mischief in Linn County Circuit Court on Tuesday afternoon.
Mercier was taken into custody on the charges by the Lebanon Police Department and lodged in the Linn County Jail on Friday.
On Monday afternoon, the last remaining 8,500-square-foot building at the Champion Mill property in Lebanon — the site of illegal homeless camps, according to authorities — was scorched by another fire.