A metro man was ordered by a federal judge to stand trial for allegedly setting fire to a McClain County deputy’s home and cars last month. Austin Reeves is accused of targeting law officers through several car burglaries and arson.
A preliminary hearing for Reeves was held on Thursday in federal court in downtown Oklahoma City. Reeves was in custody and escorted into the courtroom by U.S. Marshals. Reeves sat silently next to his attorney for the hour-long hearing.
A federal prosecutor called an Oklahoma City police violent crimes investigator who is also assigned to the ATF Task Force to testify. The agent said that while Reeves was not caught at the scene of the house fire in Washington last month, security cameras captured him running from the McClain County deputy’s home, and he had severe burns on the left side of his body. Injuries Reeves claimed were a sunburn…