The 21-year-old grandson of a former mayor is alleged to havecovered up driving his pickup truck into a concrete power pole,which may have contributed to an electrical fire that caused$900,000 in damages to a neighboring used car dealership.

Ian Nunn, 21, is the grandson of the former mayor of FortPierce, Fla., Bill Dannahower. According to a seven-page arrestaffidavit, and some surveillance footage, he is also in someserious trouble.

The footage of the accident taken from surveillance on November 10, 2010,reveals a “truck-like vehicle traveling north on U.S. 1 and comingto an abrupt stop. The vehicle then leaves the scene and momentslater there is smoke emanating from Select Autos, followed byflames,” according to the police report. That “truck-like vehicle”was Nunn's, who after leaving the scene filed an insurance claimcontending that the truck was damaged in an unreported accidentthat occurred in the Jacksonville area.

Meanwhile, fire officials concluded that the Select Autos cardealership fire was caused by an unspecified electrical failureinside the building. The initial cause of the fire has not been set in stone,but the state fire marshal did not rule out the possible linkbetween the fire and the downed 40,000-volt concrete power polethat hit a light fixture in the dealership's lot after it was hitby the truck in surveillance videos.

“The amount of electricity that went into my building flowed infrom the wrong direction – through ground wires which aren'tdesigned to be conductors – and it blew up the building'selectrical system,” said dealership owner John Dickens.

Initially, there was no further investigation into the crimebecause there were no suspects, but that changed in early December,when Dickens asked for an investigation after hearing rumors thatNunn was involved and had towed his truck toJacksonville.

Nunn's insurance company tracked the truck to an export companyin Jacksonville, where police compared the truck's damage withbroken parts found at the scene of the accident, and found aperfect match. The truck remains in police custody as evidence.

Nunn was arrested on February 15, 2011 on charges of insurancefraud totaling $12,700, leaving the scene of an accident, andtampering with evidence. He is currently out of jail on a $15,000bail, but it's unlikely that his ties to a former political figurewill get him out of his charges.