An Everett man was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday for participating in a plot to fire a flare through the window of a person against whom he had a grudge.
Michael Ryan Maddy, 27, is the last of three defendants to be sentenced for the Dec. 4, 2004 incident at an apartment unit on W. Casino Road in Everett.
The others were Christian L. Forbes 22, of Gold Bar, and Kevin John Broers, also 22, of Everett.
Intended for another person, the flare was fired through the window of another apartment within the complex. An occupant quickly extinguished the resulting fire.
Maddy pleaded guilty to second-degree arson and theft for an unrelated incident. He received the highest penalty of the three mainly because he has extensive criminal history.
Public defender Caroline Mann said the case amounts “to three intoxicated people doing something very stupid,” and she asked Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Ellen Fair for the low end of the sentencing range, about five years.
Firing a flare into an occupied apartment complex “could have been a terrible event” in terms of danger to residents and property, Fair said.
Earlier, Forbes pleaded guilty to second-degree arson and received a six-month jail sentence. Broers, who fired the flare, pleaded guilty to first-degree arson and got nearly three years behind bars.
Broers has previously been in trouble with the law. He pleaded guilty in connection with the 2002 slaughter of 16 dairy calves and injury to 17 others during a rampage at a Monroe farm.
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