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PA - Man jailed for trying to torch home

View the article here He could have killed three people, and he gets 1 to 2 years in prison? 04/20/2009 By BRETT HAMBRIGHT George Sheets Jr. claimed he targeted a convicted sex offender when he tried to set fire to a Fulton Township mobile home while three people slept inside. Prosecutors argued Sheets was a jilted ex-lover when he committed the attempted arson in April 2007. A Lancaster County judge last week tried to make sense of the circumstances surrounding what he called a difficult case. In the end, Judge Joseph C. Madenspacher granted the 51-year-old Oxford man "one chance only" by sparing him state prison. He sentenced Sheets to 1 to 2 years, minus one day, in prison so he can serve his time at Lancaster County Prison. "I'm taking a chance here...continue to full post

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