Marion arsonist sentenced to 10 years
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SEGUIN — A 24-year-old Marion man has been sentenced
to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to charges of arson in
the setting of fires that destroyed several buildings in downtown
Marion.
Cody Ryan Cannon had requested probation, but District
Attorney Heather Miller-Hollub argued for a 12-year prison term.
In
a sentencing hearing Wednesday morning, District Judge W.C. “Bud”
Kirkendall handed down a 10-year sentence in the Institutional Division
of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on an indictment charging
Cannon with three counts of arson, a concurrent 10-year sentence in TDCJ
on a charge of tampering with physical evidence and a two-year sentence
in state jail on a charge of criminal mischief, more than $1,500, less
than $20,000.
Cannon was indicted in September 2009 on three
counts of arson stemming from fires that destroyed the Blue Moon Antique
Hall and Penshorn’s Meat Market in Marion on Sept. 19, 2008, a fire
that destroyed a vehicle on May 16, 2008, and a fire that destroyed a
wooden structure adjacent to Vaquero’s Saloon in Marion on Nov. 14,
2008.
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