By JAMES BELL
Hays Post
A dumpster fire in Hays led to an arrest on suspicion of arson.
At about 2:59 a.m. July 31, the Hays Police Department was dispatched to the report of a dumpster on fire in the 200 block of West Sixth, according to Don Scheibler, Hays Police Department chief of police.
"When officers arrived on scene, it was completely engulfed," he said.
The fire was extinguished, with damage contained to the dumpster. Officers began investigating and identified a suspect shortly after.
Within an hour, Barrett Wayne Day, 47, Hays, was arrested on suspicion of arson.
Day has two previous drug possession convictions, according to Kansas Department of Correction records.