A man will avoid prison time for setting fire to a Roseville home last year and trapping his mother and her husband inside, court records show.
On Friday, a judge sentenced Andrew Michael Alvarez to five years of supervised probation after he pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree arson. As part of the plea deal, two counts of attempted second-degree murder were dismissed.
According to a criminal complaint, Alvarez’s mother and her husband reported being trapped by a fire at the top of the basement stairs around 11:15 p.m. on June 2. Firefighters responding to the home on the 2700 block of Matilda Street found smoke coming from the roof and a fire in the kitchen…