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Man Sentenced for Setting Business on Fire

Man Sentenced for Setting Business on Fire - Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 4:55PM EST

Reported by: Eyewitness News
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 @ 04:55pm EST
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY -- A man will spend at least a year behind bars for lighting a business on fire.

A judge sentenced Michael Bartell, Jr. of Tobyhanna to one to four years in jail. He pled guilty to setting a fire in June. That fire destroyed a building at Classic Quality Homes in Pocono Summit.

Bartell told police he set the fire because the business owner owed his father money. Bartell's father says the real problem was his son's drug addiction.