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Police investigate mop set on fire outside apartment complex

Updated: December 23, 2012
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DECATUR -- Police are looking for someone who started a fire near an apartment complex. It happened on the 700 block of East Leafland Drive on Friday afternoon.

Fire fighters got there around 1 PM. Police said someone set a mop on fire just outside the building. They are considering it an aggravated arson. No one was injured but the fire caused a few hundred dollars in damage. 

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