Charles Earnest Maynard, 50, pleaded guilty earlier this month in county Circuit Court to second-degree arson and manufacturing and using a destructive device, said Battalion Chief Matthew Tobia, county Fire Department spokesman.
County police arrested Maynard last summer after a six-month investigation into the February arson on Bodkin View Drive. Chief Tobia said police used DNA evidence left at the scene to link the arson to Maynard.
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