Oklahoma man sentenced for arson in Arkansas
Posted: October 23, 2009 at 7:40 a.m.
FORT SMITH — An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to five years in prison in Arkansas for setting fire to his girlfriend’s home in Fort Smith.
Thirty-five-year-old Jack Allen Hastings of Muskogee was sentenced in Sebastian County Circuit Court after pleading guilty Wednesday to arson.
A police report says Hastings set the home on fire July 3 after he and his girlfriend had argued the day before. The girlfriend told police Hastings called her at work and told her to call 911 because her house was on fire.
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