Federal prosecutors filed arson charges Friday against the 18-year-old Harlem man accused of setting a homeless subway rider on fire at Penn Station earlier this week. The charges come after investigators matched his face to body camera footage from a bicycle traffic stop a month before the incident.

Hiram Carrero was charged with arson resulting in injury to another person, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years in prison and a maximum of 40 years, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

He was remanded Friday to federal detention after prosecutors appealed the initial judge’s decision to release him on $100,000 bond.

According to the federal complaint, Carrero appeared to case the train before the attack.

Surveillance footage

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