Man sentenced to probation for setting multiple fires near I-70

MOAB — A man who set several grass fires near the Utah-Colorado border on I-70 this summer will be spending time on probation after being found guilty of arson.

Randy Alan Toney, 43, was charged with eight counts of arson that endangers human life, a third-degree felony, and a jury found him guilty on each charge on Sept. 8.

Seventh District Judge Don Torgerson sentenced him on Oct. 20 to zero to five years in prison for each of the five charges, but suspended those prison sentences — instead ordering him to spend three years on probation. If the prison sentences are imposed later, he said they would be served concurrently with each other, but consecutively to any sentences in potential future cases…

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