A former fire department administrator and police officer has been sentenced for starting more than 20 fires in the Wayne ...

A former Gallia County, Ohio, fire department worker and police officer was sentenced to prison Monday for starting dozens of ...

James Bartels, a former 911 dispatcher in southeast Ohio, admitted to starting dozens of fires to "give the boys something to ...

A former fire official has been sentenced to prison for intentionally setting several fires in a national forest in Perry ...

A man who served as a former fire official, police officer and Gallia County 911 administrator has been sentenced to 18 ...

In Ohio's Wayne National Forest, court records said more than 40 suspected arson fires were lit in 2022, and Bartels admitted to causing 26 of them. While working for the Greenfield Fire ...

A former southeastern Ohio fire department administrator will serve 18 months in federal prison after admitting to starting dozens of wildfires in Wayne National Forest. U.S. District Court Judge ...

Ohio — A former southeastern Ohio fire official was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $638,000 after he admitted to starting over two dozen fires with a lighter in Wayne National ...