Case Undecided: Man, 28, Federally Charged in 2024 Fire at Tallahassee's Historic Exchange Bank Building

Prosecutors in the Northern District of Florida have charged Ian Nathaniel Grice with arson and interstate travel in aid of a racketeering enterprise, according to WCTV. The case is open and unresolved — no plea, trial, verdict or sentence is recorded — and Grice is presumed innocent.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 13, 2026, 8:07 p.m. ET

**This is an open case with no outcome.** A 28-year-old man has been federally in connection with a January 2024 fire at a downtown Tallahassee building that houses the historic Exchange Bank, WCTV reported. The case is at the charging stage and has not been decided. The outlet identified the defendant as Ian Nathaniel Grice and said the charges were announced by the . According to WCTV, Grice is with arson and with interstate travel in aid of a racketeering enterprise. The station reported that Grice allegedly set fire on Jan. 14, 2024 to the building at 201 South Monroe Street in Tallahassee, where the historic Exchange Bank is located, and that court documents state the building was being used for interstate commerce at the time of the arson. A charge is an allegation, not a finding of guilt. Grice has not been tried on either count, no court has weighed the evidence against him, and he is presumed innocent unless and until he is proven guilty. WCTV reported the statutory penalties as "." Those figures describe what the counts carry on conviction. No conviction has been entered in this case and no sentence has been imposed. The agencies WCTV listed as investigating are the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Tallahassee Police Department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and the Florida Department of Financial Services and its Division of Investigative and Forensic Services. **Status: unresolved.** WCTV's report placed the case at the charging stage and did not include a response from Grice or a defense attorney, any plea, or scheduled court dates. No plea, trial date, verdict, dismissal, acquittal or sentence has been reported. Nothing published as of this writing records an outcome of any kind, and a reader coming to this account later should not assume one was reached: the case was still undecided when this was written, and this story has not been updated with a resolution.

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