MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 62-year-old woman accused of trying to kill five people when she set a fire was behind bars on Monday night in Miami-Dade County, records show.
Rosa Barillas, a tenant renting a shed, had five neighbors: A couple living in a Mallard travel trailer and a mother and her two kids living in a house, according to Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies.
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An investigator suspects Barillas used an “accelerant,” an “open flame device,” and “combustible materials” to start a fire on a bed in the shed on Thursday near Cutler Bay, according to deputies’ arrest report.
Firefighters responded to the arson after the flames spread from the shed to the trailer parked near the one-story three-bedroom house at Southwest 220 Street and 110 Avenue, according to deputies.
A deputy reported Barillas was covered in soot after the couple “narrowly escaped” the flames that “consumed the trailer” and damaged a white fence and a children’s swingset, records show.
Miami-Dade fire rescue personnel took Barillas to the Jackson South Medical Center where she underwent treatment for smoke inhalation and burns to her fingers before her arrest, according to deputies.
Records show correctional deputies booked Barillas, who was born in Cuba and grew up in Miami-Dade, on Friday night at the Turner Guilford Correctional Center and prosecutors filed the case on Saturday.
A judge denied her bond and ordered her to stay away from the five victims. She faced six felonies and a misdemeanor: First-degree arson, five counts of attempted murder, and resisting arrest.
Court records show Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge William Altfield was set to preside over the case and her arraignment was scheduled at 9 a.m., on June 20.