CINCINNATI — The owner of a Cincinnati restaurant ripped apart by an explosion has been charged with two counts of aggravated arson.
Forty-five-year-old Aiman Arabeiat was injured in Sunday night's blast that blew out the windows and front door on his Jerusalem Restaurant near the University of Cincinnati campus. The charges were filed Thursday.
Local and federal investigators had spent some 10 hours going over the scene on Monday and ruled out a natural gas leak as the cause of the blast.
A phone listing could not be found for Arabeiat and no attorney was listed in court records.
Neighbors said the restaurant had shut down in recent weeks.
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