{"id":272251,"date":"2026-08-26T01:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272251\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:22:02","slug":"erie-woman-sentenced-to-nearly-two-years-of-probation-following-2025-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272251\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie woman sentenced to nearly two years of probation following 2025 fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 19-year-old is now on probation after allegedly starting a fire that damaged a home in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dashinara Dorsey is facing a concurrent sentence of 23 months of probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Arson charges filed against Erie woman following east side house fire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/arson-charges-filed-against-erie-woman-following-east-side-house-fire\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Arson charges filed against Erie woman following east side house fire\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sentencing is for several counts of recklessly endangering another person and failure to prevent catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, Dorsey allegedly threatened to burn a home in the 2100 block of Wallace Street on September 10, 2025, after arguing with another person over money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Minutes after making those threats, police accuse Dorsey of lighting a paper on fire in the first-floor living room, which was then extinguished by another person in the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dorsey then went to the rear of the house, and after approximately six minutes, the house was discovered to be on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time of the incident, four people were inside, including a four-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old is now on probation after allegedly starting a fire that damaged a home in 2025. Dashinara&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[114624,136,138,137],"class_list":["post-272251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-concurrent-sentence","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272251","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=272251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}