A 51-year-old Carson City man faces arson charges in the Sunday fire that destroyed his home in the 1400 block of Siskiyou Drive. No one was injured in the blaze.
Peyton Bloxton was being held Monday on $60,000 bail. According to the arrest report, officers responded to the house fire at 5:58 p.m. and found Bloxton on the ground face down in front of the residence. He was removed from the front of the home by the Carson City Sheriff's Office with the help of witnesses.
Witnesses stated Bloxton was crying and told them that he had started a fire inside his house, that he wanted alcohol and that he wanted to die, the arrest report states.
Bloxton was medically checked by Carson City Fire Department paramedics and taken into custody. At 7:04 p.m. officers spoke with Bloxton, and read him his rights per Miranda where he agreed to speak. Officers asked if there was anyone else inside the burned home. Bloxton said there was not, the arrest report states.
He was taken to jail and at 8:39 p.m. Sunday officers conducted a recorded interview. The man told authorities that he had just been released from jail in Carson City and when he returned home, he began having problems with his girlfriend. He stated that just before the fire he and his girlfriend had a fight and a cigarette was thrown into the garage that started the fire, the arrest report states.
Officers explained the garage was the only portion of the home that had not received major fire damage and was not the point of origin. Officers asked Bloxton to be truthful about what happened. Bloxton agreed and stated that he had returned home with some beer and liquor and began arguing with his girlfriend, who pulled on the plastic bags causing the beer and liquor to fall to the floor, the arrest report states.
Bloxton told authorities he was at his wits end with his girlfriend and walked into his bedroom, drank some liquor and proceeded to light matches from a book of matches and threw the matches on his bed. He stated that once the bed was on fire, he went out to his neighbors and told them that the house was "going up" and warned them about the fire, the arrest report states.
In the blaze, two residences in close proximity to Bloxton's home received fire damage to fence and sheds and were extinguished by firefighters.