A Gold Coast man has been charged with using a cigarette lighter to set fire to to potted bushes outside Wrigley Field Wednesday night, hours after the Cubs won their afternoon game
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against the Arizona Diamondbacks.Adam Jobes, 32, of the 100 block of East Chestnut Street, is charged with misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property and reckless conduct, according to Chicago police.
Police said they arrested Jobes about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1100 block of West Addison Street.
Wrigley Field security identified him as the person allegedly caught on security cameras walking up to a flower pot on the sidewalk and lighting up the bushes inside, police said.
He intentionally used a cigarette lighter to set the bushes inside the pot on fire, said Officer Ronald Westbrooks, a Chicago Police spokesman.
A security officer later saw Jobes, then called police, who arrested Jobes and took him to the 19th District police station.
He is to appear in court August 16 at 2452 W. Belmont Avenue.
No injuries were reported.