Jon Luke Evans, a citizen of Jamaica, was arrested Friday in Biddeford, Maine after he tried to buy a gun. Old Orchard Beach police, who hired him as a summer employee, said federal officials cleared him to work in May.

The two Massachusetts women who died from injuries suffered in a camper explosion at Old Orchard Beach in Maine smelled a strange odor and lit a candle prior to the fiery eruption, the Maine State Fire Marshal’s office said Monday.