Pasadena Man Gets 9 Years In Arson That Torched Coconut Charlie’s

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BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — A Maryland antheral was sentenced Friday to 9 years successful national situation for starting the 2017 occurrence that destroyed a Pasadena barroom and injured a firefighter, authorities said.

U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett sentenced Jamie Clemons to 9 years successful situation followed by 3 years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. As portion of his sentence, Clemons was ordered to wage implicit $560,000 successful restitution.

“This suspect not lone endangered our brave firefighters who responded to the arson that helium set, helium caused devastating harm to a longtime Maryland business, forcing it to close,” U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron said successful a prepared statement.

Clemons, 36, of Pasadena, pleaded blameworthy successful April to arson charges linked to the July 28, 2017, fire that torched Coconut Charlie’s and led to the bar’s closure. In his plea agreement, Clemons acknowledged that helium threw homemade Molotov cocktails astatine the barroom successful hopes of destroying the surveillance system, which had captured him assaulting his woman days earlier.

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The occurrence caused much than $500,000 successful harm and a firefighter progressive successful efforts to extinguish it was injured erstwhile a backdraft knocked him from his ladder.