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   From: felcher.adam.schiff@sacbee.com   
      
   The man who allegedly brought gas cans and lighter fluid into   
   St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City has taught philosophy   
   at different colleges in New York and New Jersey, school   
   officials said.   
      
   Marc Lamparello, 37, was arrested on Wednesday night and was   
   charged with attempted arson and reckless endangerment. He was   
   taken into custody after a security guard at the cathedral on   
   Fifth Avenue in Manhattan spotted him.   
      
   He was cooperative but acted evasively, the New York Police   
   Department said. Lamparello allegedly told officers that he was   
   “cutting through the cathedral to get to Madison Avenue” and   
   that "his car ran out of gas," police said. But when police   
   reportedly checked the man's minivan, its gas tank wasn't empty.   
      
   John Miller, the NYPD's deputy commissioner of intelligence and   
   counterterrorism, said surveillance camera footage showed   
   Lamparello circling St. Patrick's several times in a minivan   
   well over an hour before he parked outside the cathedral on   
   Fifth Avenue, walked around the area, returned to his vehicle,   
   and retrieved the gasoline and lighter fluid.   
      
   The incident at the cathedral came two days after Notre Dame   
   Cathedral in Paris was ravaged by a fire that investigators said   
   Thursday was most likely electrical. After Lamparello's arrest,   
   police said there "doesn't appear to be any connection to any   
   terrorist group or any terrorist-related intent here."   
      
   Lamparello was also arrested on Monday in Newark, New Jersey   
   after he allegedly wouldn't leave the Cathedral Basilica of the   
   Sacred Heart at closing time after a late Mass.   
      
   The man was calm and respectful to officers but was adamant   
   about not leaving the cathedral, according to the Essex County   
   Sheriff's Office.   
      
   "He said, 'This is a house of God, it should be open, I'm not   
   leaving. You'll have to lock me up,'" Sheriff Armando Fontoura   
   said.   
      
   Lamparello has worked as a part-time online instructor at Lehman   
   College in New York, and taught philosophy as a part-time   
   adjunct instructor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, both   
   schools confirmed to Fox News on Thursday.   
      
   Brooklyn College said in a statement that because Lamparello is   
   a PhD student at the College of New York's Graduate Center, he   
   is required to teach a course on campus, and was assigned to the   
   school.   
      
   Sarah Ramsey, a spokesperson for Lehman, said the school is   
   aware of what happened at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and is   
   "taking appropriate steps to terminate the individual's   
   employment with the college," while Seton Hall said Lamparella   
   is no longer working with the university, as their "top priority   
   is the education and welfare of our students and the entire   
   campus community."   
      
   The Associated Press contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-arrested-st-patricks-cathedral-   
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