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Police in Portland have arrested a local transient accused of setting an art display on fire in the city’s Congress Square Park.
Police say it happened around 6 p.m. on Sunday. The suspect, 22-year-old Trea Sean Deam-Monet, was located and taken into custody.
Deam-Monet has been charged with arson.
Firefighters extinguished the fire and no one was hurt.
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