TikTok Couple Dakota Harper and Felicity Eatmon Charged With Arson in Charleston, WV
- 🔑 Dakota Harper, 21, and Felicity Eatmon, 22, both of Charleston, West Virginia, were arraigned September 29, 2026, on charges of conspiracy to commit arson and first-degree arson after a fire at a vacant home on the city’s West Side two days earlier.
- According to the criminal complaint, surveillance video allegedly shows Eatmon handing Harper a lit piece of paper that he placed inside the abandoned house, with both then seen partially entering the property as the fire grew before Eatmon left the area.
- The fire also damaged the adjacent Canaan United Methodist Church, with the criminal complaint citing more than $10,000 in fire and smoke damage to the church; the targeted home itself was vacant and had no active utilities.
- Harper and Eatmon were each released on $10,000 bond after their arraignment in Kanawha County Magistrate Court; as of this writing, no plea has been entered and no preliminary hearing date has been publicly reported.
- The case drew unusually wide attention because the couple has a large TikTok following built around videos of their daily life together, pulling entertainment and international aggregator sites into a story that originated in local court reporting.
- Both defendants are presumed innocent, and everything described here comes from allegations laid out in a criminal complaint rather than facts proven at trial; this article contains no betting odds, win probabilities, or predictions of any kind about how the case will ultimately resolve.
Dakota Harper, 21, and Felicity Eatmon, 22, both of Charleston, West Virginia, were arraigned on September 29, 2026, on charges of conspiracy to commit arson and first-degree arson, two days after a fire at a vacant home on the city’s West Side. The couple, who share a large TikTok following built around videos of their daily life together, were each released on $10,000 bond following the arraignment. Here’s what the criminal complaint alleges, and what hasn’t happened yet in the case.
Who are Dakota Harper and Felicity Eatmon?
Dakota Harper, 21, and Felicity Eatmon, 22, are a Charleston, West Virginia couple who built a following on TikTok by posting videos of their everyday life together. Neither had been a public figure before their September 29, 2026 arrest; it’s their existing online following that pulled entertainment sites and international aggregators into a story that started as routine local court reporting. Beyond what’s laid out in the criminal complaint, no other details about the two have been independently confirmed for this article.
What happened in the Charleston fire?
A fire was reported at about 11:15 p.m. on Sunday, September 27, 2026, at a vacant home in the 400 block of Maryland Avenue on Charleston’s West Side. The house had no active utilities and was unoccupied at the time. The blaze also reached the adjacent Canaan United Methodist Church, which the criminal complaint puts at more than $10,000 in fire and smoke damage. No injuries have been reported in connection with the fire.
What does the criminal complaint allege?
According to the criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, surveillance video from an alley next to the home shows Eatmon handing Harper what appears to be a lit piece of paper, which he is accused of placing inside the house. The complaint states both were then seen partially entering the property as the fire grew, before Eatmon left the area. These are allegations laid out in a charging document, not findings from a trial — Harper and Eatmon are presumed innocent unless and until a court says otherwise.
What charges do Harper and Eatmon face?
Harper and Eatmon were each charged with conspiracy to commit arson and first-degree arson, both felonies under West Virginia law. They were arrested and arraigned Tuesday, September 29, 2026, and a Kanawha County magistrate set bond at $10,000 for each defendant. As of this writing, no plea has been entered in either case and no trial date has been set.
What happens next in the case?
The next scheduled step would typically be a preliminary hearing, which had not been set as of this writing. Harper and Eatmon were charged by criminal complaint rather than a grand jury indictment, so the case still has to clear a preliminary hearing or indictment before it could move toward trial. No bond modification, plea agreement, or additional charges had been publicly reported as of this writing, and given how early the case is, that timeline could shift quickly.
Given the size of the couple’s online following, this is a case likely to keep generating headlines well beyond Kanawha County — we’ll update this piece as the court record changes.
How we verified this
Primary sourcing: This report is built on the criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, as obtained and quoted directly by the original Charleston-market local news report. That report is treated as the load-bearing source here for the fire’s timeline, the surveillance-video description, the specific charges, and the bond amounts.
Aggregation, not new facts: Wider pickup of this story by entertainment and international aggregator outlets was reviewed. Those pieces restate the same court filing and local reporting rather than adding independently corroborated facts, so they were used only as evidence of how widely the story spread, not as sourcing for any claim in this piece.
Still moving: As of this writing, no preliminary hearing date, plea, grand jury indictment, or bond modification had been publicly reported. This is an active pretrial criminal case, and some details here may be outdated by the time you’re reading this — see the note above on when to check back.
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