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Man Pleads Guilty to Setting Pocono Business Fire

Man Pleads Guilty to Setting Pocono Business Fire - Monday, September 14, 2009 at 5:10PM EST

Reported by: Eyewitness News
Monday, Sep 14, 2009 @ 05:10pm EDT
POCONO SUMMIT, MONROE COUNTY -- A man who set a business on fire plead guilty Monday in Monroe County court.

Michael Bartell, Jr. admitted he set Classic Quality Homes on fire in June. The Tobyhanna Township business lost an entire building in the flames.

Bartell's family claimed his son drug addiction played a role in the arson.
Bartell originally told police he set the fire out of revenge. He believed the business owner owed his father money.

He'll be sentenced at a later date.