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Roseville, MN (MinnesotaNow) - A Minnesota man has been sentenced to probation in a case in which he was accused of trapping his parents in the basement of their home before setting the house on fire. Twenty-nine-year-old Andrew Michael Alvarez was arrested last June after police and firefighters responded to his family's home in Roseville after receiving a 911 call from his father...

Investigators say she used gasoline and lighter fluid to torch her home with the children trapped inside.

The fires occurred on consecutive days in April 2023.

He entered a guilty plea to a reduced charge through a plea deal last fall.

One person was evaluated for smoke immolation after the fire.

Multiple fires had been set in the home and a gas valve on the kitchen stove was left in the open position.

Fire accelerants were found at the scene and a witness reported that he an earlier threatened to start a fire.

Children had to be evacuated from a daycare center that was being operated in one of the mosques.

There were four children present when the home invasion occurred last fall.

The charges say the arsonist was recorded by surveillance cameras at the house.