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Man Pleads Guilty to Setting Fiorelli's and Highway Auto Fires
Man Pleads Guilty to Setting Fiorelli's and Highway Auto Fires - Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 6:48PM EST
Reported by: David DeCosmo WYOU TV News
Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 @ 06:48pm EST
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY- Robert Woolaver, a man described by prosecutors as a 'drifter', has entered a guilty plea to charges relating to two Lackawanna County arson's.
Woolaver was charged with Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Arson and Criminal Conspiracy to Committ Criminal Trespass in connect with a fire that destroyed Fiorelli's Catering in Peckville last March. He also plead guilty to similar charges in connection with the arson at Highway Auto Garage in Eynon on March 27th of 2008.
Woolaver will be sentenced at a later date. He faces a maximum jail tem of 37 years and fines up to $65,000.
A co-defendant, Benjamin Christensen of Carbondale still faces charges relating to both of those fires and five others which were deliberately set in Lackawanna County. | | |
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