An Arizona man who set fire to a cabin where his ex-girlfriend was living in Grand Canyon National Park was sentenced last week to 20 months in prison and forced to pay over $20,000 in restitution, according to court documents.
The man, Dahntay Dunbar, 21, was arrested in May after the authorities responded to a fire in the cabin, along the South Rim in Grand Canyon National Park, the complaint said. Mr. Dunbar poured a bottle of liquor onto his former girlfriend’s bed, lit one of her shirts on fire and then threw it onto the bed before leaving and driving away, federal prosecutors said in a news release.
Mr. Dunbar was arrested by National Park Service rangers hours later, and admitted to lighting the fire, prosecutors said.
The woman was not home at the time of the fire, according to court documents. The cabin was owned by her employer, the resort company Xanterra. Someone who saw the cabin on fire was able to extinguish most of it before firefighters arrived, prosecutors said. Part of the cabin was scorched in the fire, and the mattress was also partly burned, the authorities said.
Mr. Dunbar, who pleaded guilty in July to one count of arson, had originally faced an additional count of trespassing, as well as two counts of property damage. Those three charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, according to court documents. After his prison sentence, Mr. Dunbar will be on supervised release for five years.
A lawyer for Mr. Dunbar declined to comment on Wednesday.
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