LEWISTOWN, Ill. – A now-former volunteer firefighter in Fulton County is out of jail after being charged with Arson.
Fulton County Circuit Court records indicate Dwight Sheets, 18, faces a felony count of Arson, along with five other counts of Attempted Arson. He’s scheduled for a pre-trial hearing in the case January 3rd.
Sheets allegedly set one corn field in Lewistown on fire, and attempted to set five other corn field fires, all between October 9th and 16th.
Sheets — who 25 News says had already been on suspension — is no longer with the department.
One homeowner said in her case, the corn field would have been destroyed had it not been wet from rain.
