The woman and her daughter were sleeping around 1:57 a.m. July 1 when she awoke to the sound of her car horn, a probable cause affidavit said. She looked outside and saw her car was on fire.
As firefighters worked to put out the blaze, the woman checked her surveillance cameras and recognized her ex-boyfriend, Warren Anthony Ivy, 43, of Hammond, according to court documents. The video showed him throwing a brick through the driver side window, then putting something in the car that ignited it when he appeared to have struck a match, records said.
Ivy is in custody, and a bond hasn’t been set yet, police said. He has been charged with two counts of arson, a level four felony, and one count of stalking, a level five felony.
The woman told Hammond Police that she and Ivy had gone to Las Vegas and had gotten into an argument June 22 after Ivy lost “a lot of money gambling,” the affidavit said. The next day, when the two flew from Las Vegas to Milwaukee, Ivy broke her phone because he was worried she was going to leave him at the Milwaukee airport; and he threatened that he would “destroy her car, her building and her life,” if she did, records said.
Additionally, a friend of Ivy’s saw the woman out with another man, and the woman suspected that friend told Ivy, the affidavit said.
A neighbor told police the woman said she was going to go to her parents’ house because she was afraid of what Ivy might do.
Police asked Ivy about the situation and he said he was at his aunt’s home in Illinois until the afternoon of July 1, but wouldn’t allow officers to confirm his alibi, the affidavit said.
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