North Alabama woman faces arson charges in connection with 2 fires

North Alabama woman faces arson charges in connection with 2 fires

A Crossville woman faces two arson charges in connection with fires in Marshall County earlier this week.

Jessica Rena Baca, 35, was arrested Thursday night on first and second degree arson charges and is being held in the Marshall County Jail on $90,000, according to jail records.

According to WHNT, Albertville firefighters were called to a shed reportedly ablaze on Rose Road Monday night.

Police said Baca was in the vicinity of the fire and observed near the fire department’s equipment by witnesses. She was “taken from the scene and dropped at a different location,” police said.

Later that evening, around 11:45 p.m., she was spotted at a residential fire on Goodwin Road.

Officers, believing she was impaired, arrested her. Police say she later confessed to setting both fires.