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Crimestoppers Seeking Help in Carter’s Fish Market Fire

By Greg Halbleib Dec 24, 2025 | 5:04 AM

Sangamon-Menard Crime Stoppers is looking for tips to solve an arson at Carter’s Fish Market on South Grand Avenue in Springfield early Sunday morning.

Crime Stoppers said surveillance video shows a Black man with a gray beard wearing a dark coat and stocking cap pouring liquid from a blue jug around the cook shed before igniting it at about 1 a.m. Sunday. 

The fire caused about $25,000 damage. Anonymous tips can be submitted to 217-788-8427, cashfortips.us or the P3 app.