Woman indicted for Lynn arson

SALEM – A Boston woman who allegedly set fire to the Lynn home of her son’s father was indicted Friday afternoon by an Essex County grandy jury.Mia Richburg, 43, was charged with arson of a dwelling for setting fire to 263 Essex St. on Sept. 16. She also faces charges of breaking and entering in the daytime and intent to commit a felony. She had originally pleaded innocent to the charges in District Court and was assigned $1,000 bail.The fire heavily damaged an apartment in an addition built onto the rear of the Essex Street building. Arson inspector Donald Baron said Ernest Taylor, the father of Richburg’s son, lives in the apartment. Richburg allegedly called Taylor on Sept. 16 and discovered he would be at work, then traveled to Lynn from Boston with a male companion and broke into Taylor’s apartment through a window.Baron said Richburg lit a fire in the bedroom and on an upholstered living room chair, telling the man as she left the apartment, “I lit the place up.” No one was hurt in the fire, but Baron said “it was bad enough that it rendered the apartment uninhabitable.” Baron and Fire Lt. David Legere worked with the Fire Marshal and State Police to investigate the fire.Baron was previously arrested in May 2007 on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (knife) and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (cork screw) while living at 168 Williams Ave. in Lynn.Also indicted were:Amaral P. Pierre-Louis, 27, of 47 Trinity Ave., Lynn, faces charges of being armed with a dangerous weapon (handgun), home invasion.Hansel Martinez, 35, of Allston, and Edison Carrasco, 20, of New York City, face charges of knowingly manufacturing, distributing or dispensing a weight of 200 grams or more of cocaine or a mixture of cocaine and trafficking cocaine in weight of 28 grams or more, following an investigation at 10 Harris St. in Peabody, where police believed Martinez and Carrasco were using an apartment as a stash house.Indictments are not an indication of guilt; rather it is a legal process that allows a case to be transferred from District Court to Superior Court, allowing for a more severe punishment.