A Bristol Township man is to spend nearly a year in jail for attempting to set fire to his former boss before using a homemade flamethrower to set his car on fire.
At a hearing Wednesday, Aug. 27, Bucks County Common Pleas Judge Wallace Bateman Jr. sentenced 61-year-old Glenn King to serve nine to 23 months in Bucks County Correctional Center and three years of probation
The judge also ordered King to pay $3,900 in restitution and have no contact with his former boss or his motel.
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A Bucks County man was sentenced to at least nine months in jail for setting his former boss’s car on fire.
King faced a potential maximum sentence of up to 22 years in prison.
Earlier this year, King entered guilty pleas to felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor criminal mischief.
Bristol Township police alleged that King, a former maintenance worker at the Village Lodge in Bristol Township, showed up at the business Jan. 17, dousing a Lexus in the parking lot with kerosene.
When the car’s owner — King’s former boss — saw what was happening he approached King, who sprayed him with kerosene and attempted to set him on fire, according to court documents.
The man ran toward the motel office with King chasing him and threatening to kill him and “burn this place down,” court documents said.
The victim reached the office and shut the front door moments before King, who then started spraying the door with kerosene.
Another motel employee who was in the parking lot started talking to King, who then moved away from the building.
But then King picked up an aerosol can from his car, walked back to the Lexus and used the blowtorch and the spray to create a flamethrower, which ignited the Lexus.
King then fled the scene in his car, authorities said.
Reporter Jo Ciavaglia can be reached at jciavaglia@gannett.com.
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