Woman Charged With Arson After Setting Underwear On Fire In Jail

The Dispatch 

Shawn J. Soper, News Editor

OCEAN CITY -- A Bishopville woman is facing first-degree arson, malicious burning and other serious charges after allegedly setting a fire in her holding cell in Ocean City last night.

Around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, an Ocean City police officer on patrol was approached by a cab driver who informed the officer he just had a female passenger jump from his vehicle in the area of 64th Street. The cabbie told police the fare that had jumped from his cab was a white female around 50 years old with a red shirt and brown hair. The cabbie told police he picked up the fare at a downtown bar and was taking her to a residence in Bishopville when she jumped out of the vehicle. The cabbie told police the woman was intoxicated and was last seen crawling in a parking lot.
The officer responded to the area and found the woman, later identified as Lisa Kerstetter, 53, of Bishopville, in the parking lot of the 64th Street shopping center. The officer approached Kerstetter and asked if she was okay. According to police reports, she was incoherent and could not respond to the officer’s questions. Her purse and belongings were strewn about the parking lot.
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