Rod Anderson, Hereford House owner, indicted in alleged scheme to torch his restaurant

Twenty-one months after a fire destroyed the legendary downtown Hereford House, a federal grand jury indicted Rodney J. Anderson, an owner of the restaurant, yesterday on arson and mail-fraud-conspiracy charges in an alleged $2.5 million scheme.

Authorities believe the men who set the blaze at 2 East 20th Street on October 20, 2008, are still at large.