ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Following barn fires that occurred in November 2021, two of the three individuals who pleaded guilty to setting the barns on fire are still behind bars.
Nearly two years after Blake Cameron Williams and Anthony DeWayne Boyd were sentenced to a minimum of 3 1/2 years in prison, the third person, Ashley Debra Neal, 30, has been sentenced. According to a news release from Buncombe County District Attorney Todd Williams, Neal has been found guilty by a jury on multiple counts related to a series of arsons that occurred in the Sandy Mush and Leicester communities in November 2021.
Superior Court Judge Alan Z. Thornburg sentenced Neal to serve an active term of no less than four years in the custody of North Carolina prisons and a maximum term of 87 months (7 1/4 years). Neal will be released to probation upon the completion of her term of imprisonment, the release said…