Texas arsonists mug shots
The arsonists were arrested late last night and this morning in San Antonio and Grand Saline. KLTV will be covering it live at 4:00 pm today. According to Crowley with the ATF, he said, “various techniques led members of a special task force to the men, including DNA evidence and phone tips.”
My questions revolve around if they turned out to be young highschoolers that are either satanists or think they are vampires. One news station said their last names are Jason Borque and Daniel Mcalister. Jason was a student at UT Tyler. 
If you know these guys feel free to comment below and fill us in. Is he a twilight fan, does he regularly where black trench coats, and other typical ridiculousness.
The ATF has reported that the other arsonists last name is Borque and was arrested in Northern Smith County. They said the sketches are unrelated to the men that were arrested. The sketches were men of interest at the time that could have some kind of link.
These are considered 1st degree felonies and could also be considered aggravated robberies. The ATF said that among some of the evidence they have is DNA evidence.
They may ask the judge to stack sentences. There is only one arrest warrant at this time which is the Dover Baptist Church warrant. They are confident that they will be arrested on other fires. They don’t believe the fire in Temple is related to the East Texas church fires.
According to NBC news one is from Lindale and the other guy is from Van Texas but after more news it appears more like Ben Wheeler Texas. So these guys were right in my backyard the whole time. I kind of suspected they might be from here considering how they were spreading the fires out around this location. They couldn’t resist to go after a couple of the churches in their own towns. If they were trying to throw police off I think it served more as an easy to find trail to their hideout.
Dates and locations of arsons:
- 01-01-2010, 9:02 AM – Little Hope Baptist Church – Canton, TX;
- 01-01-2010, 11:05 AM – Faith Baptist Church – Athens, TX;
- 01-11-2010, 10:40 PM – Grace Community Church, Athens, TX;
- 01-12-2010, 12:09 AM – Lake Athens Baptist Church, Athens, TX;
- 01-16-2010, 6:30 PM – Tyland Baptist Church, Tyler, TX;
- 01-17-2010, 6:33 PM – First Church of Christ Scientist, Tyler, TX;
- 01-20-2010, 7:37 AM – Prairie Creek Fellowship, Lindale, TX;
- 02-04-2010, 5:23 AM – Russell Memorial United Methodist Church, Wills Point, TX;
- 02-08-2010, 8:47 PM – Dover Baptist Church, Tyler, TX;
- 02-08-2010, 9:44 PM – Clear Springs Missionary Baptist Church, Lindale, TX.
In addition to the arsons at the above listed churches, there were attempted break-ins at the following churches:
- 02-07-2010, 12:19 AM, Heritage Baptist Church, Tyler, TX;
- 02-08-2010, 9:19 PM, Clearview Church, Tyler, TX;
- 02-08-2010, 9:39 PM, Pine Brook Baptist Church, Tyler, TX.
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So many are posting "The Church Burners Are Caught!" and expressing their wishes that the men arrested are punishes harshly. If they are guilty, I hope so too. But I caution those to remember the men have a Constitutional right to a trial, and such rushes to judgement can lead to disaster in a high profile case. Ple…ase visit http://www.wm3.org/ to see how badly a case can go awry and the long lasting damage that can occur.
Your questions about if the suspects wear black and think they are vampires and satanists or not are exactly the kind of closed-minded suspicions that ran the three boys in West Memphis through a hillbilly kangaroo court.
I hear your point Brian. It is a suspicion but I wouldn't call it closed minded. It could have been done by a Southern Baptist deacon at a local Baptist church that got mad for being kicked out of his Sunday school teaching position but I am going to go with probably not. They have DNA evidence so I am interested to see how this and other evidence links these two. They are innocent until proven guilty and hopefully Smith County or whatever county they are prosecuted in gives them a fair trial. Your website is obviously a good resource to make sure trials like these do not convict innocent people.
They may not be satanists, vampire fans, or atheists at all and it could be a completely different motive I have not been able to think of. Feel free to give your opinion on some other motives for burning churches down. I think it would be a good discussion.
Jason's myspace page is http://www.myspace.com/rampag1
According to KLTV news these guys grew up in the church.
From KLTV – "Members of First Baptist Church, Ben Wheeler held a special prayer service, Sunday night. Carlton Young has been pastor of the church for 15 years. He said Jason Bourque and Daniel McAllister, the two men arrested in connection with the rash of East Texas fires, are former members of his church.
"Daniel was a very quiet young man ," he said. "Jason, at that time, was a little mischievous."
El Paso Times stated, "But officials say they found weapons and books detailing atheism and devil worship during a pre-dawn raid at a home where Bourque was arrested Feb. 21. In a separate raid in San Antonio, authorities captured Daniel George McAllister, Bourque's childhood friend from First Baptist Church in tiny Ben Wheeler."
I haven't been following the story but I think the best suggestions I've heard are to offer these two the option of rebuilding the churches they burned. It might give them a little appreciation for the amount of hard work that went into something they burned so easily and quickly.