Teens Charged with Firebombing Home

The fire that broke out at 81 Eagle Road in Cranston early Friday morning was an act of arson that erupted after a fight at a house party, Cranston Police said, and two local 18-year-olds are now being held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions.

Police said Raymond Bagley, of 19 Eagle Road and James Lopardo of 115 Salem Ave., both in Cranston, were each charged with first-degree arson and conspiracy to commit arson for throwing a Molotov cocktail at the house near the Johnston line around 3 a.m. Friday morning. 

Cranston firefighters quickly extinguished the house and none of the six people in the house at the time were injured.

Cranston Police detectives, members of the Cranston Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations an the Cranston Fire Marshal and state Fire Marshal investigated the scene and "quickly developed suspects in the case and learned that at least one of the suspects in the arson was involved in a verbal altercation at a house party between he and one of the residents at 81 Eagle Road," said Cranston Police Major Robert W. Ryan.

Lopardo was that suspect and after questioning, police determined that he was responsible for the arson.

Later on Friday afternoon, police identified Bagley as an accomplice. He was arrested and charged with the same offenses.

Both men were arraigned and ordered held without bail at the ACI pending a status review later this week, Ryan said.