STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It’s safe to say that Dominick Sacchetti, a fairly new ShopRite hire, will not be making it past his probationary period after officials allege he attempted to burn the supermarket down.

ShopRite employees interviewed by the Advance/SILive.com expressed shock that a fellow associate was accused of starting the blaze.

One employee who was working at the time of the incident noted that Sacchetti, 21, acted normal in the immediate aftermath, only raising suspicion when he was the first to leave after the evacuation.

In court documents obtained by the Advance/SILive.com, prosecutors say Sacchetti showed a “depraved indifference to human life,” when he used a set of matches to ignite paper towels on the shelves to set fire to ShopRite.

“Yeah, it was crazy because he di

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