During its Monday meeting, the Ohio Controlling Board approved the release of more than $92 million through the All Ohio ...

James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio Grande, Ohio, started 26 fires in the national forest in 2022, creating a substantial risk of death or significant injury to the public, as well as to firefighters from ...

A former Ohio Fire Administrator will spend time in jail after he started dozens of arson fires in a national forest.

A former fire department administrator and police officer was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to starting dozens of fires in Wayne National Forest. James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio ...

A man who served as a former fire official, police officer and Gallia County 911 administrator has been sentenced to 18 ...

James Bartels, a former fire department administrator, claimed he set the fires to "give the boys something to do." ...

James Bartels was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sparking 26 fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors announced on Monday.

A former fire official has been sentenced to prison for intentionally setting several fires in a national forest in Perry County.  James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio ...

A former fire department administrator and police officer has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for setting 26 ...

In Ohio, a troubling case of arson perpetrated by a former fire department dispatcher and police officer has come to a legal resolution. James A. Bartels, previously ...

A former fire department administrator and police officer has been sentenced for starting more than 20 fires in the Wayne ...