SCRANTON, Pa. — A Lackawanna County judge on Wednesday sentenced a man to five years of probation for setting fire in 2023 to the Scranton home of a man police accused of killing the fire starter’s boss.
Barton James MacConnell, of Carbon County, appeared Wednesday in county court before Judge Andy Jarbola, who imposed a probationary sentence and ordered him to not contact the victim of the Brook Street fire, Michael Albert.
Albert was accused of hitting and killing a MacConnell’s boss, Mark Boyle, with a dump truck in Schuylkill County in August, 2023. One day after Boyle was killed, MacConnell traveled to Scranton and set fire to Albert’s home, police said.
MacConnell pleaded guilty in August to a felony count of criminal mischief.