An Arizona man who set fire to a cabin in Grand Canyon National Park where his ex-girlfriend was staying was sentenced last week to nearly two years in prison.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that Dante Dunbar, 21, of Flagstaff, was arrested in May for breaking into a locked cabin and setting it on fire.
Federal prosecutors said Dunbar found a bottle of clear liquor, dumped it on the bed and set his ex-girlfriend's shirt on fire. She was not in the cabin at the time.
“The bed began to catch fire and Mr. Dunbar exited the cabin,” the Justice Department said in a statement. “The fire caused charring, burnout and smoke damage to the walls, ceiling and other parts of the cabin.”
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Entrance sign to Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Federal prosecutors say a man who set fire to a cabin in a park will serve a prison sentence. (Jim Lane/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
A bystander witnessed the fire and extinguished most of the flames before firefighters arrived on the scene, according to court documents.
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Dante Dunbar was sentenced to two years in prison for arson. (Pilar Arias/Fox News Digital)
The cabin was owned by the resort company Xanterra. The fire caused more than $40,000 in damage, authorities said.
Dunbar was quickly arrested by park rangers. On July 8, he pleaded guilty to arson of a dwelling.
A few days before the fire, Dunbar got into an argument with an unnamed woman and crashed through one of the windows, according to court documents.
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In addition to the prison term, he was ordered to pay $20,146.13 in restitution and will be subject to five years of supervised release after serving his sentence.
