Overview
- Aaron Marshall Keel, 60, pleaded guilty to first-degree arson and received a 20-year sentence with all but 18 months suspended.
- He will serve the jail term followed by five years of supervised probation, and he waived credit for 169 days already served.
- Investigators cited surveillance showing Keel approaching through the woods, purchases of a gas can and pump sprayer, and disposal of items in a school dumpster, with his blue Toyota repeatedly captured on cameras.
- Charging documents say Keel set multiple fires on different levels of the vacant, renovating house, which has since been declared a total loss.
- The court ordered $1,000 restitution, mental health and anger management treatment, and no contact with the neighbors, and related stalking and harassment charges were placed on the stet docket as part of the plea.