A 47-year-old woman pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday to nearly 16 months in prison for starting fires in a metal shop and home west of Yacolt.
Court records show that Clark County Superior Court Judge David Gregerson sentenced Angie Mae Ingram to 15¾ months on a single count of first-degree attempted arson as part of a plea agreement.
Ingram originally was charged with two counts of first-degree arson.
She was arrested Oct. 18, 2017, after admitting to Clark County sheriff’s deputies at the scene of a fire, in the 15900 block of Northeast Gabriel Road, that she was responsible for setting two structures aflame, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Firefighters were called to the address about a shop fire shortly before 5 p.m. A deputy there spoke with Ingram, who was standing in front of the house laughing and smiling, according to the affidavit.
Clark County Fire District 10 firefighters were busy working to extinguish the burning metal shop next to the home when Ingram started asking them questions, such as how long it would take to put it out. She also said, “Maybe they can put the house fire out while they are here,” before entering the house and lighting fire to curtains hanging over a bed, the affidavit says.
When a deputy asked Ingram if she started the second fire in the double-wide manufactured home, she laughed, according to the affidavit.
By pleading to the attempted arson charge, Ingram admitted she knowingly and maliciously started a fire.
