BOONTON, NJ — Davon Fields, 46, a Newark resident, was sentenced on July 11, 2025, to eight years in New Jersey State Prison with four years of parole ineligibility for his role in a November 2024 warehouse fire and copper theft in Boonton, authorities announced.
Fields appeared before Judge Ralph E. Amirata in Morris County Superior Court and had previously pled guilty on June 2 to second-degree aggravated arson, third-degree burglary, theft, and criminal mischief charges.
The fire broke out on November 3, 2024, at a commercial warehouse located at 95 Fulton Street. Emergency crews from Boonton Police, Fire Departments, and mutual aid companies extinguished the two-alarm blaze, which affected the main warehouse and a secured section leased by a pharmaceutical supply company.
Investigators concluded the fire was intentionally set, based on evidence including multiple ignition points, a gasoline canister nozzle, and a petroleum odor. Surveillance footage captured two masked individuals entering the warehouse shortly before the fire started.
A joint investigation by Boonton Police, the Morris County Sheriff’s Office, and Prosecutor’s Office revealed approximately $233,000 worth of copper was stolen from industrial equipment operated by a separate company within the warehouse.
Fields, the warehouse manager, was present late at night on November 1 and 3. Law enforcement discovered he sold large amounts of copper at a scrapyard on November 1 and 2 before the fire.
He was arrested on January 13, 2025, and subsequently charged.
Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll praised the coordinated efforts across agencies, highlighting forensic and digital analyses that aided prosecution. The investigation involved Boonton Police, Morris County Sheriff’s Office, and Prosecutor’s Arson and Environmental Crimes Unit, with support from the Special Operations and High Tech Crimes Units.
