BUSTED: Texan arrested after being caught on tape setting fire to synagogue

Authorities have arrested a man alleged to have committed arson at a Texas synagogue on Halloween.

"Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, is suspected of using an accelerant near the sanctuary doors of Congregation Beth Israel to ignite the flames, causing an estimated $25,000 in damage," KXAN-TV reported, citing the Austin Fire Department.

An arrest affidavit says that surveillance video showed a dark-colored Jeep and a "tall, thin white male with dark hair" who got out of the vehicle just before the fire started — and then ran back to the vehicle immediately after the fire started.

The congregation provided arson investigators with surveillance footage from three days earlier that appears to show the same Jeep.

Prominent University of Texas Law Prof. Steve Vladeck, a member of the synagogue, pointed his Twitter followers to a thread by independent journalist Nate Thayer, saying it "looks increasingly like what we all assumed it was."

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