A 74-year-old former police chief in Maryland was sentenced to decades behind bars for setting fire to more than a dozen properties belonging to perceived rivals and enemies, including his own stepson, on three occasions.
David Crawford pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts of first-degree arson and one count of second-degree arson, Montgomery County State Attorney John McCarthy said at a press conference. A judge sentenced him to 55 years in prison. This is on top of the eight life sentences plus 75 years he received back in 2023 for fires set in Howard County.
The fires in Montgomery County occurred in 2016, 2017 and 2020 at Crawford’s stepson’s home in Clarksburg…