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Vancouver man gets 2½ years for setting fire to two buildings

Restitution determined to be more than $360,000

By Jessica Prokop, Columbian Local News Editor
Published: April 17, 2017, 7:05pm

A Vancouver man was sentenced Monday to more than 2½ years in prison for setting fire to two under-construction buildings in August 2016.

Ryan J. Rodriguez, 19, pleaded guilty earlier this month in Clark County Superior Court to first-degree arson and second-degree burglary in connection with the back-to-back fires that destroyed an under-construction apartment building and two-story house in the Minnehaha area.

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