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Key West police ID 2 suspects in fire that damaged iconic buoy
Police say dramatic video shows David Perkins, of Leesburg, and Texas resident Skylar Jacobson setting fire to a Christmas tree that damaged the Key West's iconic southernmost point buoy.
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - - Restoration has been completed on Key West's Southernmost Point marker, one of the most photographed landmarks in the Florida Keys, following damage from a fire intentionally set early New Year's Day.
City public works staff finished repainting the marker Thursday night. It designates the southernmost land point in the continental United States, a replica of a marine navigational buoy with red, yellow, black, and white stripes.
Key West police have announced charges against two men suspected of torching a Christmas tree next to the landmark buoy. The 20-ton concrete monument, installed beside the Atlantic Ocean in 1983, bears lettering that proclaims it stands just 90 miles from Cuba.
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