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Jerome Williams Gets 15 Years for Arson

ALBANY , NY –  District Attorney P. David Soares today announced that JEROME WILLIAMS, 49, of 115 Grand Street , Albany , NY has been sentenced yesterday to 15 years in State prison and five years of Post Release Supervision by the Honorable Stephen W. Herrick.

WILLIAMS was accused of intentionally starting a fire in 90 Third Street in Albany on Sunday, October 31, 2004 by lighting a news paper and placing it by the wall in the guest room of the first floor of the building causing the building to burn and causing a grave risk to other occupants in the building including a mother and two children.


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