From Staff Reports

LEWISTOWN — A 27-year-old man was jailed Thursday after police said he threw a “Molotov cocktail-style” device toward a vehicle, causing it to catch fire.

Derrick Robert Longenecker, of Lewistown, was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Jack Miller on charges of recklessly burning a vehicle, criminal mischief and recklessly endangering another person.

According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, Pennsylvania State Police at Lewistown were called to a residence on 522 North in Decatur Township for a reported vehicle fire.

The victim reported that she woke up at about 3:40 a.m. to her car alarm going off and when she looked out the window, her vehicle, a white Mazda 6, was engulfed in flames.

Video surveillance showed that a vehicle pulled into the victim’s driveway at about 3:15 a.m. and an unknown person, later identified as Longenecker, threw what police describe as a Molotov cocktail-style incendiary device toward the vehicle.

Police said the device did not ignore and the individual got back in the vehicle and left the residence. Then at about 3:20 a.m., the same individual drove back to the residence and threw a second incendiary device, causing the vehicle to go up in flames.

Longenecker was held in Mifflin County Correctional Facility on $75,000 bail. He is awaiting a preliminary hearing set for 9 a.m. today.