Owner of Michigan warehouse in deadly blast is arrested at airport with one-way ticket
The owner of a Michigan business that exploded in March has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a flying canister from the blast hit and killed a 19-year-old standing outside a quarter-mile away.
The owner of a Michigan business that exploded in March has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a flying canister from the blast hit and killed a 19-year-old standing outside a quarter-mile away.
Noor Kestou, the owner of Select Distributors, was arrested this week at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York after police in Michigan were alerted that he was attempting to leave the country on a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, officials said.
“We don’t know what his ultimate goal was," Macomb County prosecutor Peter Lucido said. "Was it to stay out of the country with a wife and a child here?”
Kestou’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The warehouse that exploded March 4 in Clinton Township, just outstide Detroit, was a distributor for vape pens and smoke shop items and filled with illegally stored butane and nitrous oxide canisters, officials have said.
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