{"id":211204,"date":"2026-04-27T14:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211204\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:34:33","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-admits-setting-fire-inside-atlantic-city-apartment-building-causing-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211204\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Admits Setting Fire Inside Atlantic City Apartment Building Causing Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An Atlantic City man pleaded guilty to a charge of causing widespread damage, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Khalil Washington, 42, entered a plea Friday in Superior Court that calls for a seven-year sentence in New Jersey State Prison.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police said officers were called Aug. 18, 2025, to the High Gates apartment building on Absecon Boulevard for a reported fire. Investigators said surveillance video showed Washington gathering items from a trash room, setting them on fire outside an apartment door, then lighting a paper plate and holding it up to a ceiling sprinkler.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The sprinkler activated and flooded the building, prosecutors said. Washington was arrested at the scene and taken to a hospital for injuries caused by the force of the sprinkler.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sentencing is scheduled for July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Atlantic City man pleaded guilty to a charge of causing widespread damage, prosecutors said. Khalil Washington, 42,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-211204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}