22-Year-Old Dexter Oliver, the man accused of setting his girlfriend on fire because she wanted to leave her clothes unattended at a Bayview laundromat, was arrested at a hotel in Oakland yesterday. With Oliver's mugshot plastered all over the Sunday evening news, SFPD's Special Investigations Division apparently had no trouble getting tipped off about the suspect's location by Monday afternoon.

Last night around 9 p.m., SFPD officers and a couple of U.S. Marshals descended on the hotel where Oliver was holed up near MacArthur Boulevard and Telegraph Avenue not far from the MacArthur BART station in Oakland. Oliver surrendered without incident and will be booked in San Francisco on charges of attempted murder and arson.

As we suspected yesterday, police had Oliver's mugshot on file because he has a long rap sheet that includes felony carjacking and robbery. In 2009, Oliver pled guilty to battery charges in San Mateo County for putting his ex-girlfriend in a chokehold. He was sentenced to over 100 hours of domestic violence counseling, which he never completed.

Starr Lamare, the 25-year-old burn victim and mother of three, is currently in intensive care at St. Francis Memorial Hospital's burn ward where she will probably stay for the next four or five months and undergo several reconstructive surgeries. According to her mother, Lamare has burns on her face, hands and chest. Witnesses to the Sunday incident said they saw her running into the street and tearing off a flaming sweater.

Previously: Man Sets Girlfriend On Fire After Laundromat Spat
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