Arsonist Sentenced for Houston Blaze

A judge has sentenced a Houston man who had been suspected of setting a series of fires to 40 years in state prison for one of the blazes.

John Leonard Morin was convicted and sentenced on a felony arson charge after a brief trial on Friday.

Houston Fire Department arson investigators say the 48-year-old was identified as a suspect in a series of fires that happened in southwest Houston from 2007 until 2009. Ultimately, investigators were able to link Morin to a fire that occurred in October 2007.

In 1992, Morin received a four-year sentence for arson after a series of fires that also took place in southwest Houston.