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Two Arrested For Lighting Ex-Roommate's Car On Fire

BEND, OR -- Two people were arrested Wednesday on Arson and other charges, following an investigation into a weekend car fire. Bend Police responded to the report of a vehicle fire near SE Fourth and Roosevelt Saturday night. Officers and fire crews extinguished the flames.

Investigators later determined the owner of the car was sleeping when Nathaniel Tatom and Cindiy Kusmider arrived, smashed the driver's side window with a baseball bat and poured a clear liquid inside. The victim reported the car ignited in flames but they escaped unhurt. 

Tatom and Kusmider left before emergency crews arrived but were taken into custody Wednesday after officers served a search warrant at Tatom's home on Forum Drive. 

Kusmider, who also had two outstanding warrants, told police she had ingested drugs, so she was taken to St. Charles Bend. She walked out of the hospital early Thursday and was found by police nearby. She will join Tatom at the Deschutes County Jail once she's medically cleared. 

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