Man arrested on arson charge in Tunis fire

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Interior of Club 166 gutted, destroyed

  • BURLESON COUNTY SHERIFF’S Investigators Tim Davis and Christine Labertew work at the scene of this arson off F.M. 166 in Tunis. A Somerville man was arrested on an arson charge.
    BURLESON COUNTY SHERIFF’S Investigators Tim Davis and Christine Labertew work at the scene of this arson off F.M. 166 in Tunis. A Somerville man was arrested on an arson charge.
  • THE INTERIOR of Club 166 is gutted after an early Thursday morning fire off F.M. 166 in Tunis. -- Tribune photo by Roy Sanders
    THE INTERIOR of Club 166 is gutted after an early Thursday morning fire off F.M. 166 in Tunis. -- Tribune photo by Roy Sanders
A fire gutted the inside of Club 166 early Thursday, Sept. 5, off F.M. 166 in Tunis, and a Somerville man has been charged with arson and burglary of a building. Orenthal Jerod Lauderdale, 40, remains in Brazos County custody on the arson charge, a second degree felony, and on the burglary charge, a state jail felony, said Burleson County Sheriff’s Investigator Christine Labertew. Lauderdale is…

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