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From: felcher.adam.schiff@sacbee.com

The man who allegedly brought gas cans and lighter fluid into
St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City has taught philosophy
at different colleges in New York and New Jersey, school
officials said.

Marc Lamparello, 37, was arrested on Wednesday night and was
charged with attempted arson and reckless endangerment. He was
taken into custody after a security guard at the cathedral on
Fifth Avenue in Manhattan spotted him.

He was cooperative but acted evasively, the New York Police
Department said. Lamparello allegedly told officers that he was
“cutting through the cathedral to get to Madison Avenue” and
that "his car ran out of gas," police said. But when police
reportedly checked the man's minivan, its gas tank wasn't empty.

John Miller, the NYPD's deputy commissioner of intelligence and
counterterrorism, said surveillance camera footage showed
Lamparello circling St. Patrick's several times in a minivan
well over an hour before he parked outside the cathedral on
Fifth Avenue, walked around the area, returned to his vehicle,
and retrieved the gasoline and lighter fluid.

The incident at the cathedral came two days after Notre Dame
Cathedral in Paris was ravaged by a fire that investigators said
Thursday was most likely electrical. After Lamparello's arrest,
police said there "doesn't appear to be any connection to any
terrorist group or any terrorist-related intent here."

Lamparello was also arrested on Monday in Newark, New Jersey
after he allegedly wouldn't leave the Cathedral Basilica of the
Sacred Heart at closing time after a late Mass.

The man was calm and respectful to officers but was adamant
about not leaving the cathedral, according to the Essex County
Sheriff's Office.

"He said, 'This is a house of God, it should be open, I'm not
leaving. You'll have to lock me up,'" Sheriff Armando Fontoura
said.

Lamparello has worked as a part-time online instructor at Lehman
College in New York, and taught philosophy as a part-time
adjunct instructor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, both
schools confirmed to Fox News on Thursday.

Brooklyn College said in a statement that because Lamparello is
a PhD student at the College of New York's Graduate Center, he
is required to teach a course on campus, and was assigned to the
school.

Sarah Ramsey, a spokesperson for Lehman, said the school is
aware of what happened at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and is
"taking appropriate steps to terminate the individual's
employment with the college," while Seton Hall said Lamparella
is no longer working with the university, as their "top priority
is the education and welfare of our students and the entire
campus community."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-arrested-st-patricks-cathedral-
college-professor

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