Alleged Juggalo arrested on suspicion of arson, burglary

An alleged Juggalo gang member was in the Clark County Jail on Friday, four days after being arrested for allegedly breaking into a unit of the Sunpointe Apartments in Cascade Park and setting a fire.

Randall Gene Leroy, 23, has been charged with first-degree arson and residential burglary, according to a probable-cause declaration filed by John Fairgrieve, senior deputy prosecutor and team leader of the Major Crimes Unit.

The crime surfaced about 6:30 a.m. Nov. 1, when Vancouver police and firefighters were called to apartment D-52 of the complex at 900 S.E. Park Crest Ave.

When they arrived, they found the sliding glass door smashed and that someone had used lighter fluid to set fire to a couch cushion that burned carpeting, the court document said.

Someone had left graffiti on the inside of the front door that read “JRB 4 LIFE,” allegedly a Juggalo gang tag, the document said.

A Vancouver police arson investigator said his investigation, in part looking at Leroy’s MySpace page, led to him.

Police found Leroy at 3311 E. 18th St. on Monday and arrested him, court papers say.

Leroy told police a woman asked him to break into the apartment and steal jewelry, a computer, a TV and clothing, and paid him cash and drugs for committing the crimes, court papers say.

Leroy is being held on $50,000 bail, a jail official said.