Woman threatens to burn down home, gets arrested, jailed

YOUNGSTOWN — A 22-year-old city woman is being held in the county jail after police say she tried to burn down a W. Ravenwood Avenue woman’s home.

Deana Jenkins, 22, of Woodford Avenue was arraigned before Judge Robert A. Douglas Jr., Youngstown Municipal Court, on misdemeanor charges of criminal damaging and criminal menacing. She is in the Mahoning County Jail on $10,000 bond. She is ordered to have no contact with the owner of the Ravenwood Avenue home.

Police say Jenkins sprayed the front of the woman’s house as well as inside the door with lighter fluid during an argument and said she was going to burn down the house. Police and fire units responded to the house.

Police found a bottle of charcoal lighter fluid in the driveway and took two lighters from Jenkins