Lyndell “Lynn” Price, former Turkey Leg Hut co-owner is facing multiple charges of conspiracy to commit arson following a federal indictment.
According to reports, Price was emotional when the cops arrested him on Thursday (April 24). “Price…was in tears when he was pulled over,” said a source to KPRC 2. He’s accused of conspiring with Armani Williams and John Lee Price to ignite Bar 5015 on June 12, 2020. The bar is owned by a former Turkey Leg Hut partner.
The arrests were the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Houston Police Department.
Prosecutors said Lynn recruited a group of accomplices who poured gasoline at the Third Ward bar’s entrance ramp and set it ablaze. Lynn is also accused of paying the group for the arson.
On June 12, 2020, Williams and an unnamed accomplice bought gasoline and face coverings, then “poured gasoline across the deck and down the entrance ramp,” the indictment states. At 4:44 a.m., “they lit a piece of paper,” and by 4:47 a.m., “Lynn Price received a phone call” confirming the arson.
Bar 5015 is owned by Steve Rogers, a former business partner of Lynn and a former co-owner of the Turkey Leg Hut. Rogers sued Price and his then-wife Nakia Holmes in July 2020 for financial mismanagement, weeks after the Bar 5015 explosion. Though the initial suit was settled, Rogers again sued in February 2023, accusing Price and Holmes of defaulting “on an earlier agreement that involved buying him out of his shares of the restaurant.” In March 2024, the Turkey Leg Hut was ordered to pay Rogers the remaining $931,111.12; the restaurant declared bankruptcy during the case.
Cops suspect that the motive behind the alleged attack on Bar 5015 was over the former business partners’ bad blood.