MADISON, Maine (AP) - A Maine man has been charged with setting a house on fire the day after his mother sold it to a couple who planned to use it as a camp, officials said.
Dwayne Weese, 52, of Athens, appeared in court Monday after the fire marshal’s office charged him with arson in connection with a house fire that occurred on Feb. 28, the Morning Sentinel reported.
A Maine State Police tracking dog following footprints in the snow from a crawl space under the house where the fire started to Weese’s residence next door, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
The fire extinguished itself, and the house sustained minimal damage.
Weese was still being held Tuesday on $5,000 bond at the Somerset County Jail. It wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney.
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