Byline: John Caher Staff writer
A former security guard who told police that he had set 30 to 40 fires since he was 5 years old pleaded guilty Tuesday to the October torching of the Boston Store at Latham Circle Mall.
Keith Alan Fitzgerald, 32, of 2267 Fifth Ave., Troy, admitted to Albany County Judge Thomas W. Keegan that he used a disposable lighter to ignite two pairs of corduroy pants and start a blaze that gutted the department store and sent the parent company into bankruptcy court.
Interstate Department Stores Inc. and Latham Investments Inc., citing the fire that kept the Latham store closed during the Christmas rush, on Friday sought …
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