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

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

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

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

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

James Bartels was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sparking 26 fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors announced on ...

James Bartels, 52, started 26 fires in the national forest in 2022, according to United States Attorney Kenneth Parker’s ...

Bartels was also ordered to pay $638,000 in restitution and register through the Ohio Arson Registry. Wayne National Forest ...

James Bartels, a former fire department administrator, claimed he set the fires to "give the boys something to do." ...

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 ...