Teen Arsonist Who Burned Down Wrong House Gets Sentenced
View Source | February 1, 2023 5:28 pm
- The youngest of three teens charged in a 2020 arson that killed a family of five was sentenced in late January after pleading guilty in December.
- Dillon Siebert, 17, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and the use of a weapon during a violent crime, which enhances the sentence, according to Denver 9 News. Siebert was sentenced as an adult to seven years in the youth offender system on Jan. 25.
- Prosecutors said in a previous hearing for Bui and Seymour that the arson was intended as revenge for the theft of Bui’s cellphone, but a tracking app used to locate the phone led the teens to the wrong house.
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