(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Bensalem Police Department)<\/p>\n
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n
(Bucks County, PA) According to officials yesterday, twenty-two-year-old Harrison Jones of Rockford, Michigan\u00a0was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison after he\u00a0set\u00a0a home\u00a0located\u00a0in Bensalem, Pennsylvania on fire\u00a0with several people inside in 2025.\u00a0The Bensalem Police Department in Bucks County states that Jones\u00a0has been charged with arson, attempted murder, and related offenses in connection with a fire on\u00a0February 10th, 2025.\u00a0Police confirm that the arson happened shortly before 5:30 a.m. that day\u00a0in the 5200 block of Merganser Way in Bensalem which injured\u00a0six people and killed two dogs.\u00a0The Bucks County District Attorney\u2019s Office\u00a0confirms that\u00a0Jones entered a plea of no contest to\u00a0attempted\u00a0homicide and aggravated animal cruelty charges after he set the home of a 21-year-old who had an online relationship with his ex-girlfriend on fire. Officials expressed that Jones traveled over 700 miles to set the house on fire. Jones ignited an accelerant, which caused an explosion, leveled the rear of the home and trapped six people inside. Jones was arrested in Michigan after the attack occurred and investigators used automated license plate readers to track him down.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Bensalem Police Department) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Bucks County,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-107329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","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\/107329","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=107329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}