(Perry, Iowa) – Officials with the Perry Police Department announced on Monday, an arrest was made in connection with a residential fire in Perry, over the weekend. 54-year-old Rosa Perez Diaz, of Perry, was arrested in Colorado and charged with four counts of attempted murder, one count of first-degree arson and one count of second-degree criminal mischief.

Police said a fire was reported at 1215 Bateman St. in Perry around 12:30 a.m. Saturday. The property is a two-story home with a downstairs and an upstairs apartment, both occupied. First responders found a fire on the west side of the building by a back door and a van parked next to the house in flames. Those fires were quickly put out.

During the investigation, officers determined the fire was intentionally set and identified Diaz as the suspect. Diaz is the estranged wife of one of the residents of the lower-level apartment. Police said that the day before, Diaz had rented a vehicle from Avis in Johnston and used the rental car to drive to the house in Perry and flee after starting the fire.

Around 5 a.m. Saturday, a license plate reader near Kearney, Nebraska, flagged the vehicle, corroborating officers’ information that Diaz might be fleeing to California. Diaz was later stopped around 2 p.m. by a Colorado State Trooper on Interstate 74 in Eagle County, Colorado. She was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Eagle County Jail, where she is now awaiting extradition back to Iowa.