Willits arsonist gets 20-year prison sentence
Published: Friday, January 27, 2012 at 6:32 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 27, 2012 at 6:32 p.m.
A Willits man who admitted setting 19 fires last summer was sentenced Friday to 20 years in state prison.
Steven Gene Hensley, 36, also will be required to register for life as an arson offender and was ordered to pay $354,138 in restitution for fire damages and firefighting costs, the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office said.
Hensley admitted to setting 19 fires in and around Willits between July 4 and Aug. 21, officials said.
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