Illinois teen Isabella Garcia arrested for allegedly setting Florida lodge on fireplace after struggle with mother

A 16-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday after a struggle together with her mom allegedly led her to set a sofa lodge on fireplace whereas on trip in Ocala, Florida, based on police.

Isabella Religion Adeline Garcia and her mom have been visiting the Ocala Hilton on SW 36th Avenue from Peoria, Illinois, when the incident came about at about 3:20 a.m. Tuesday, Ocala police wrote on Fb. 

Garcia referred to as 911 herself roughly three to 5 minutes after beginning the fireplace, based on an affidavit obtained by FOX 35 Orlando.

“I bought right into a struggle with my mother,” she informed dispatchers, based on the affidavit. “I bought right into a struggle with my mother after which she bought one other room. She wasn’t speaking to me after which she wouldn’t reply any of my calls or textual content messages. I don’t know. It was like this sofa within the foyer … I don’t know what to do.”

“I’m scared. I don’t know what to do,” the woman added.

The woman’s mother informed authorities that she and her daughter have been on trip in Orlando and had spent the day in Ocala to go to the springs on their approach to Daytona Seaside, the affidavit mentioned.

Throughout their keep on the lodge, the 2 bought right into a struggle and Garcia informed her mother that she is a “horrible mom” and he or she hated her – which isn’t irregular, based on the mother.

The mother mentioned she then left the room in an try to hold the argument from escalating, referred to as her daughter to inform her the brand new room she was in, and the fireplace alarms went off about 15 minutes later.

When she went to ensure her daughter evacuated the room, she discovered Garcia standing exterior within the car parking zone.

“[She] has by no means accomplished something like this,” the mother informed police. “She is an efficient woman.” 

All 320 lodge visitors have been evacuated safely, based on Ocala PD, and have been allowed again to their rooms that very same morning.

The fireplace was extinguished inside seven minutes of first responders arriving on the lodge and there have been no accidents reported.

Garcia was charged with arson of an occupied construction and prison mischief better than $1,000, the affidavit revealed.

Resort administration estimated that the harm was round a “couple hundred thousand {dollars}.”

The fireplace began close to the banquet rooms of the lodge, which is the place police and fireplace officers found a pile of char and ashes from what was a sofa.

Black soot was additionally noticed touring up the wall and onto the ceiling. 

Surveillance footage from the lodge confirmed the teenager roaming the hallway between 2:30 a.m. and three:15 a.m., FOX 35 reported, and at 3:08 a.m., she was seen speaking on the cellphone.

At 3:17 a.m. she was seen strolling as much as a sofa with a protracted lighter and allegedly used it to mild the nook of a pillow on fireplace.

She then walked out of the lodge to the car parking zone.

A lighter much like the one seen within the surveillance video was situated exterior the lodge close to the place she was sitting after calling 911.

Garcia was arrested and transported to the Marion County Juvenile Detention Heart.