Logan Arson Investigation Continues To Unravel

Four people are facing federal charges for allegedly scheming to inflate the value of a downtown Logan building to more than 20 times its actual worth, and then setting it on fire to collect a million dollars in insurance money.

A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday names Greg Glick, a former Logan city councilman as the ring leader, who worked with Guy Miller, Shawn Simon, and Jamey Thompson to pull off the scheme, which resulted in a downtown Logan building being gutted by fire.

More charges will likely follow, with a current Logan city councilman in the thick of it.

In addition to the four people already charged in the arson and fraud case, three other unnamed suspects are mentioned in the federal indictment. Putting some pieces together, with supporting court records, you can peg two of them. One is a current city council member, and the indictment accuses them of conspiring to pull of the fraud, while ordering others to set the downtown building on fire.

Greg Glick owns 317 Steakhouse in downtown Logan and a new parking lot across the street. The parking area was once home to a building, which was intentionally set on fire in February 2012. Glick's now among those facing charges related to the arson and the coverup that followed to get insurance money. He bought the property less than a month before the fire---from Jamil Allie for $50,000. In the federal indictment, Allie's identified as "known person one," who operates a realty and appraisal business with a "known person two". That makes the second person his brother: Logan city councilman Mike Allie.

The indictment alleges Glick split part of the insurance proceeds after the fire with Jamil Allie. It continues to imply Glick and Jamil agreed to have Allie's brother Mike ask Guy Miller, also charged in the case, to set the fire.