Pottersville NY Church Arsonist Sentenced To 14 Years

Thursday, 10 of April , 2008

POTTERSVILLE—A former student at the Word of life Bible Institute on Glendale Road in Pottersville who admitted he set a fire two years ago which destroyed the Christ Episcopal Church has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. He will serve the sentence in federal prison, to run concurrently with a sentence of 13 years which was imposed for an unrelated arson in his hometown in Massachusetts in 2005.

Caleb Uriah Lussier, 21, of Plymouth, Mass, had pleaded guilty in Warren County Court last fall to two counts of felony arson as a hate crime for the May 30, 2006 fire.

He will also have to pay $300,000 in restitution and will be placed on five years of supervised parole following his release from prison. the rest image