An Arlington Heights woman faces an arson charge stemming from a fire early Tuesday that caused significant damage to Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines, police announced Wednesday.
Virginia Roque-Fermin, 41, of the 4200 block of Jennifer Lane, is scheduled to appear in Cook County bond court later today on the felony charge, police said.
Virginia Roque-Fermin, 41, of Arlington Heights Investigators later reviewed video surveillance footage from the shrine which shows Roque-Fermin carrying objects such as statues, buckets, chairs, and planter pots toward the cave/grotto area of the shrine, police said. She is then seen starting a fire and continuing to carry surrounding objects toward the blaze to stoke the flames, police said.
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