18 Year Old Gets 66 Months for Lighting Person on Fire on MTA Subway Intent to Kill Not Found

18 Year Old Gets 66 Months for Lighting Person on Fire on MTA Subway Intent to Kill Not Found by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 23 –   After an 18 year old was Federally charged with lighting a sleeping person on fire on a subway in NYC at 3 am, he was ordered free on bond - and that was overruled and he was detained. Inner City Press at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York live tweeted at bail hearing on Hiram Carrero, Federally charged for allegedly lighting a person of fire on the NYC subway. Defense: He's 18 and his mother is here, in the mask Federal Defender: The frequency of cough syrup use is overstated. Judge: Pre-Trial Services recommends detention - arson on an individual. AUSA: He faces a minimum of seven years Judge Robert W. Lehrburger: I'm ready to rule. This endangered the life if a sleeping individual. There is video. But he doesn't have a notable criminal history. If out, he could get treatment. I will release him  AUSA: Can you stay it? Judge: Only to 5 pm Then: OK - now at appeal of release of Carrero charged with lighting a sleeping person on fire on NYC subway - Judge Lerhberger ordered him free today on $100,000 on secured bond. AUSA: The defendant saw a sleeping person on a subway car on 34th Street and threw a burning paper on him - he was engulfed in flames by 42nd Street. If more than 8 block he might have died. Federal Defender: Judge Lehrberger released him to his mother Federal Defender: I hear from his mother that the person may have set themselves on fire Judge Caproni: And the defendant had the bad luck of throwing paper on a person who set themselves on fire? I don't find that credible. FD: He's not be charged before Judge Caproni: I don't understand an 18 year old being out at 3 am lighting people on fire. So I have little confidence in home detention - it's only as good as his compliance. FD: Can't he be at home while we figure out what's going on with him? Judge Caproni: I am overruling Magistrate Judge Lehrberger and I am order the defendant detained. Thank you all - clear out, I have something else on after you Jump cut to June 23, 2026, Inner City Press went to the sentencing: Judge Liman I draw the inference he intended to set the victim on fire. But the Government has not shown an intent to kill the victim, only serious bodily injury. So the guideline will be 60 months. Judge Liman sentenced him to 66 months. In the courtroom: his mother, in a COVID / medical mask as at the presentment, his cousin - and his aunt, who his Federal Defender said was not allowed to visit him in the MDC. The case is USA v. Carrero, 1:25-cr-593 (Liman) *** Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron. Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com SDNY Press Room 500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007 USA Mail: Box 130222, Chinatown Station, NY NY 10013 Reporter's mobile (and weekends): 718-716-3540 Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.  Copyright 2006-2025 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com