{"id":106713,"date":"2026-02-06T05:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:17:17","slug":"michigan-man-who-drove-700-miles-to-set-bensalem-house-fire-sentenced-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106713\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan man who drove 700 miles to set Bensalem house fire sentenced to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BENSALEM. Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A Michigan man who drove across the country to set <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/michigan-man-charged-attempted-homicide-arson-allegedly-driving-more-700-miles-set-pennsylvania-house-fire\/15921522\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire to a family&#8217;s home in Bensalem <\/a>will spend the next 20 to 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Thursday, Harrison Jones pleaded no contest to six counts of attempted murder and two counts of animal cruelty for the killing of the family&#8217;s two dogs in the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">READ MORE | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/michigan-man-charged-attempted-homicide-arson-allegedly-driving-more-700-miles-set-pennsylvania-house-fire\/15921522\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan man allegedly drove over 700 miles to Bensalem Twp., Pa., with &#8216;murderous intentions&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bucks County prosecutors said Jones drove more than 700 miles to set fire to the home on the 5200 block of Merganser Way last February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Six people were injured in the blaze, including three who had to jump from an upstairs window to escape the flames. All the victims suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nearby surveillance cameras were able to track the suspect&#8217;s movements before and after the flames were ignited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Jones is the former boyfriend of a woman who was in a new relationship with someone who lived at the home.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM. Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A Michigan man who drove across the country to set fire to a family&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[51395,191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-106713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-51395","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}