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\nAn Elizabethtown man charged with setting a mobile home on fire by spraying lighter fluid on a stove earlier this year accepted a 30-year sentence Tuesday afternoon in Hardin Circuit Court as part of a plea agreement.<\/p>\n
\nAn Elizabethtown man charged with setting a mobile home on fire by spraying lighter fluid on a stove earlier this year accepted a 30-year sentence Tuesday afternoon in Hardin Circuit Court as part of a plea agreement.<\/p>\n
Adam Mathers, 27, was arrested March 3 for starting a fire February 26 inside an Elizabethtown residence.<\/p>\n
According to a complaint warrant, Mathers and his girlfriend had been involved in a domestic violence situation that day. The woman said in the warrant Mathers went to a back room in the mobile home where he retrieved a can of lighter fluid and began spraying it on the kitchen stove.<\/p>\n
When the kitchen became engulfed in flames, Mathers continued to spray lighter fluid on the fire and the surrounding walls, according to an arrest report.<\/p>\n
The woman told police, according to a warrant, she attempted to leave the residence with a child earlier that day, but Mathers blocked the door shoving her and the child back inside.<\/p>\n
Originally charged with first-degree arson, that charge was amended to second-degree arson. He also was sentenced as a persistent felony offender making the arson charge a Class A felony punishable by 20 to 50 years, or life in prison.<\/p>\n
He also was sentenced to one year on a fourth-degree assault charge. The assault and arson charges will run concurrently for a total 30-year sentence. Mathers will be eligible for parole after serving 20 percent of his sentence which is six years.<\/p>\n
Mathers has been lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center in lieu of $50,000 cash bond since March 3.
\nSource: NE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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