Lexington woman charged with arson for starting a fire at a local motel

A Lexington woman has been arrested after court documents say she started a fire at a Lexington motel.

Olivia Maison, 30, was booked into the Fayette County Detention Center Friday, May 29, and charged with first-degree arson. Her arrest citation says she started a fire in a hotel room at the Sportsman Motel on Winchester Road with a handheld lighter earlier that day.

Details of the incident are similar to a fire that the Lexington Fire Department said happened at a fourplex behind the motel. The fourplex fire sent one person to a hospital and displaced one person from the unit where the fire started and three others from another unit, according to the fire department…

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