GUILTY: Love, Alcohol Inspire Arson Attempts
MEDFORD, Ore. -- Authorities say two women have been sentenced on the same day in Jackson County for setting fires in their homes to get back at the men they lived with.
Prosecutors said the cases against Victoria Ann Spears, 53, of Medford and Angela Gay Hogan, 40, of Shady Cove were related only in that the women each started fires to get back at the men they lived with — and that alcohol abuse played a significant factor in their actions. Both pleaded guilty to second-degree arson.
Each woman pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser arson charge. Both got probation sentences and $600 fines.
In Hogan's case, prosecutors say the 40-year-old woman told her housemate of eight years she was going to set his room afire and ignited his papers and belongings while he called 9-1-1.
In the other, 53-year-old Spears was in the process of getting a divorce and was accused of setting fire to an open closet, but her husband put it out.
