VISTA, Calif. (AP) -- A 19-year-old man who set a small brush fire at the height of the San Diego County wildfires last fall has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Gorgonio Nava pleaded guilty in March to one count of arson of forest land. The judge found true an allegation that Nava set the October 23rd fire while San Diego County was under a state emergency proclamation.
A San Diego County sheriff's bomb-arson investigator testified at a hearing last November that Nava told him he was walking home from a store with his 16-year-old brother when they tore a sign off a telephone pole, set it on fire with a lighter and placed it under vegetation.
The fire charred about 200 square feet of vegetation.
