A homeless teenager has been arrested on charges of setting five in a string of 12 fires at midtown Manhattan hotels over the past week and a half.

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With the tourist season under way and the July 13 Democratic National Convention drawing near, the blazes have worried the city's tourism industry.Raymond Charles Dunford, 17, was arrested at the scene of a fire Monday after a homeless man pointed him out. He was charged Tuesday with five counts of arson.

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