02.09.07 - 2 Suspects
Plead Not Guilty in Unrelated Fires
Two Suffolk men suspected of setting fires in unrelated
cases pleaded not guilty to arson charges in Suffolk County
Court yesterday.
Alfredo Bartos, 69, of Lindenhurst, pleaded not guilty
to third-degree arson for setting ablaze a Lindenhurst marina
where he once worked. Prosecutor Peter Timmons said that
after recently being fired from his job at Kydd's Marine
Center on Montauk Highway, Bartos returned there on Jan.
28, "dropped a large quantity of gasoline ... and des-
troyed approximately 15 boats." Bartos, who was represented
by a Legal Aid attorney, was held on $200,000 cash bail.
Michael Eisenberg, 17, of Blue Point, pleaded not guilty
to second-degree arson for a Jan. 13 fire prosecutors said
he set. Timmons said Eisenberg lit a discarded Christmas
tree on fire and threw it on the porch of a Blue Point home.
Prosecutors said a family of four escaped from the house
before firefighters extinguished the flames. Eisenberg remained
free on bail of $250,000 bond.
Eisenberg's attorney, Nancy Bartling, said she was still
investigating the case, but described her client as "a
good kid."
- Alfonso A. Castillo:
Newsday Staff Writer
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