A 31-year-old St. Joseph man is due in court next week to face charges stemming from a fire Tuesday morning at a local apartment complex.

Rydell Rawls is charged with knowingly burning or exploding, a class-d felony. A judge set bail at $10,000 cash. Rawls is scheduled to appear before Associate Circuit Judge Keith Marquart on November 15th.

In court documents, St. Joseph police say that on Tuesday morning, Rawls set several items on fire in his apartment at 1602 Brookside. According to the affidavit, this caused a large disruption to the other building residents and the fire department had to respond.

There were no injuries reported in the fire, which was started in a couch in Rawls’ apartment. The building was evacuated shortly after 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. A woman told authorities that the man who started the fire was causing a disturbance in the parking lot. Police soon took him into custody after a brief foot chase.

He’s being held in the Buchanan County Jail.