2 men get prison time for arsons

April 19, 2011 at 5:12p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — Peter Sahagun and Dustin Rogers will each spend the next year behind bars as payment for setting fire to abandoned homes in search of valuable pipes inside the walls.

Sahagun, 21, of North Schenley Avenue, and Rogers, 22, of North Richview Avenue, appeared today before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for sentencing. Both men had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of arson.

Judge Krichbaum sentenced each man to six months in prison on each of the two arson charges. Sahagun will get credit for the 109 days he spent in Mahoning County jail. Rogers will receive credit for the 113 days he spent in the jail.

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