Feds: Suspect set fire to restaurant so business partner could collect $1.1M insurance

Apr 08, 2025 min read Adam Ferrise

Feds: Suspect set fire to restaurant so business partner could collect $1.1M insurance

Conneaut's Ryan Anderson is charged with conspiracy and arson in the burning of the former Golden Anchor restaurant.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Conneaut man burned down a vacant restaurant so his business partner could collect $1.1 million in insurance money, federal prosecutors say. Ryan Anderson set fire to the former Golden Anchor restaurant when his business partner, Rueben Schwartz, was out of town to dupe arson investigators, according to charges filed Tuesday in federal court in Cleveland.
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