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CO who ‘torched’ NY building charged with arson

Yvette Randolph has been a city correction officer since 2002, was assigned to the Bellevue Hospital prison ward

By Tina Moore
New York Daily News

NEW YORK — New details emerged Friday about the prison guard who allegedly torched an apartment building in Brooklyn and injured a dozen people.

Yvette Randolph, 43, has been a city correction officer since 2002 and was assigned to the Bellevue Hospital prison ward to guard sick inmates, a source said.

Randolph has no formal disciplinary history and was suspended immediately without pay, the source said.

She was charged with second-degree arson in the blaze on Chauncey St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant that critically injured five people with another two victims in serious condition following the Thursday morning blaze.

Full story: City correction officer who ‘torched’ Brooklyn building - leaving a dozen injured - charged with arson