CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday.
U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, 31, on Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. He was brought back to Michigan on Wednesday.
Kestou, of Commerce Township, was arraigned Thursday on an involuntary manslaughter charge.
The March 4 fire and explosion occurred in a Clinton Township building that housed a distributor for the vaping industry called Goo. More than 100,000 vape pens were stored on-site. Authorities have said a truckload of butane canisters had arrived at the building within a week of the explosion that sent cannisters soaring up to 2 miles (3.2 kilometers), and more than half of that stock was still there when the fire began.
Commerce Department announces new restrictions on U.S. firearms exports
Luxon defends decision not to attend nationwide hui
Hong Kong anthem bill passed amid protest
Event: Asia’s budding filmmakers prepare for Shorties Film Festival 2020
US probes whether Tesla Autopilot recall did enough to make sure drivers pay attention
No compensation for man imprisoned longer than sentence
Roberto Cavalli: Italian fashion designer dies aged 83
Major geomagnetic storm lights up parts of New Zealand
Fed's preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month
Doctors call for engineered stone ban