MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — A man is locked up after allegedly purposely setting a brush fire in Monroe County.
State police say 60-year-old David Frantz, who was out on bail on related charges, tried to enter a home along Molasses Valley Road in Polk Township around 3 a.m. Monday morning.
When the person who lives there would not let him in, troopers say he lit a brush fire in a field behind the home.
When officers arrived, they found Frantz on a garden tractor nearby and say he admitted to setting the fire.
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