BELLINGHAM — A Bellingham woman is going to prison and undergoing a mental health evaluation as part of her sentence in an arson case.
The Bellingham Herald reported investigators were surveilling 38-year-old Casey Ann Evans in May under the suspicion that she set several area fires. She was arrested while walking away from a small blaze outside her home.
A breath test showed her blood alcohol level almost three times the legal limit.
The grandmother of Evans’s two children said in court documents that the house had cupboards and closets packed with liquor and the body of a dead squirrel in one bedroom.
Evans didn’t admit guilt, but took an Alford plea deal that reduced her charge from first to second-degree arson.
She was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation and spend a year and a day in prison followed by 18 months of probation.
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