State Crime Reports

Naperville Man Pleads Guilty To Setting Fire To Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center In Aurora

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015.  A Naperville man pled guilty today to federal charges he set fire to the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora on September 26, 2014, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Brian Howard, 37, of Naperville, was charged by information earlier this month with one count of willfully setting fire to, damaging, destroying or disabling an air navigation facility; and one count of using fire to commit a federal felony. Howard will be sentenced on September 11, 2015 by U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feinerman and remains in federal custody since his arrest in September 2014. 

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