Police believe the former boyfriend of the owner of a Mahoning Township nail salon that burned in December started the fire.

Township police have issued an arrest warrant for Epifanio Garcia-Rivas, 41, whose last known address was Allentown. He faces felony charges of arson, burglary and risking a catastrophe.An investigation revealed that multiple fires had been set on Dec. 15, 2013, in Beverly Hills Nails in the Carbon Plaza along Route 443, Mahoning Police Chief Audie Mertz said in a press release early Tuesday.The fire caused an estimated $67,000 in damage.Anyone with information about Garcia-Rivas' whereabouts is asked to contact police at 570-386-2241, or by sending an email message to

mahtwppd@ptd.net.Police were dispatched to the mall at 3:44 a.m. that morning when a fire alarm went off. They found that a fire in the nail salon had been extinguished by the mall's sprinkler system. No one was hurt, but several businesses had water damage.