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Camas Hotel manager accused of setting fire to historic property

Police say Won Dong Lee-Kim, 30, was trying to collect insurance money when he intentionally started a fire in an unoccupied guest room on Wednesday

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(Post-Record file photo) Guests walk toward the Camas Hotel in downtown Camas in 2019. Police have arrested the hotel's manager in connection with a small fire that broke out Wednesday in an unoccupied guest room.

Camas police have arrested the manager of the Camas Hotel in connection to a fire that broke out Wednesday, June 17, in one of the hotel’s guest rooms. 

Won Dong A. Lee-Kim, 30, of Camas, has been charged with first-degree arson and booked at Clark County Jail. Police say Lee-Kim set the fire in an attempt to collect insurance money. The Clark County Jail’s inmate roster shows Lee-Kim is also being held on a fugitive from justice charge. 

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