SCRANTON, Pa. — A Lackawanna County judge on Wednesday sentenced a man to five years of probation for setting fire in 2023 to the Scranton home of a man police accused of killing the fire starter’s boss.
Barton James MacConnell, of Carbon County, appeared Wednesday in county court before Judge Andy Jarbola, who imposed a probationary sentence and ordered him to not contact the victim of the Brook Street fire, Michael Albert.
Albert was accused of hitting and killing a MacConnell’s boss, Mark Boyle, with a dump truck in Schuylkill County in August, 2023. One day after Boyle was killed, MacConnell traveled to Scranton and set fire to Albert’s home, police said…