Now that we know LPS employee Sharon Brewster is accused of setting the fire that torched LPS's district officers, we can get to the real questions I've had for a while now. Namely, what have been investigators been up to for the past several weeks? How did they narrow down their search? What led to the various breaks in the case? In other words, I'm ready to hear about all the juicy CSI stuff.
But for now at least we have an arrest in the case. Hopefully it's the correct arrest. Maybe she even has $20 million in the bank so she can pay full restitution. Er, well, probably not. That sure would make an interesting twist to the story though, wouldn't it?
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I know it sounds overly dramatic but this really took my breath away. I think everyone was fully expecting that the results would be that it was accidental caused by a small electric heater or something. To hear that it was a teacher is alarming and sad. That said, I’m surprised that the security systems within the distric office seem to allow full access regardless of time of day/night. My place of employment restricts access to the building and for that matter specific areas of the building based on time of day and day of the week. Certain individuals can enter any time of day after hours and others may not. Seems like this is something to consider as they rebuild. What a sad day.
My thoughts are similar to BigMike’s. I was stunned (and not sure why) to learn this was arson, and then to find out it was a teacher. I fully expected the same thing he said - it was somone’s small heater, or a desktop coffee mug warmer or something similar that had malfunctioned. I’ve believed for a long time that they knew pretty precisely where in the building the fire began, and that if it was due to someone’s personal items that they were protecting that person’s identity for some reason. This blows me away, even though I guess it shouldn’t.
I work for a small software company and we are a single floor for all operations. I have access to the building, and access to the systems remotely at any time. If their security system generated reports of people’s coming and going then leaving the building open to authorized personnel isn’t that out of place. You’d just get questioned about it in the morning anyway, so why do anything sneaky? In her case, she was ‘working’ or dropping off files or something-not that unusual for a teacher to be doing that outside of normal hours-especially an advanced teacher that may have responsibilities for a team of other younger teachers. As for the CSI part of it, it blows me away that the person on the street thinks they are entitled to full transparency and disclosure. It doesn’t work that way, and their investigation is still on-going despite the arrest. They aren’t going to mess it up so arm-chair CIS agents can mess it up, or pollute the jury pool. Ive been in charge of a corporate security team, and done investigations as a security officer in a collegiate setting. You don’t tip your hand.
In hindsight, it would have been a lot easier to do the stapler-in-the-jello trick.
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