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Ark. Teen Sentenced To 10 Years For Car Fire
POSTED: 11:10 am CDT August 28,
2008
UPDATED: 5:13 pm CDT August 28,
2008
LINCOLN, Ark. -- A 19-year-old Fayetteville man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping a friend set a Lincoln school teacher's car on fire.
Ark. Teen Sentenced To 10 Years For Car FireNicholas Juan Cortes pleaded guilty to accomplice to arson. Circuit Judge Kim Smith made a nonbinding sentencing recommendation of boot camp for Cortes.
Shawn Calvin Perkins, 18, pleaded guilty to the same charge last month and was also sentenced to 10 years in prison.Both were ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution.Perkins, then a senior at Lincoln High School, was apparently upset with teacher Michelle Morris because he was suspended after Morris sent him to the principal's office. Prosecutors said Cortes had been enrolled at Lincoln Public Schools, but was not a student at the time of the April fire. Perkins was expelled after the incident.
Ark. Teen Sentenced To 10 Years For Car FireNicholas Juan Cortes pleaded guilty to accomplice to arson. Circuit Judge Kim Smith made a nonbinding sentencing recommendation of boot camp for Cortes.|
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