Bee Staff
Elaborate planning by four suspects to torch a vehicle only ended up earning them time in jail, restitution payments and the requirement to register as arson offenders for life, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.
All to collect $26,000 from two insurance companies - which now has to be paid back, according to a new release.
The final sentences were issued last week. Some of the defendants had been sentenced earlier. Sentenced arson and insurance fraud in the case were Anthony Woodcock Jr., 20; Frank Avery, 23; Kyle Cooper, 20; and Jarred Flory, 21, all of Rancho Cordova.
Avery, Cooper and Flory each received 180 days in county jail, and Woodcock received 240 days in county jail, according to the DA's office. Each of the defendants is also required to register as arson offenders for life and ordered to pay a total of $26,308.81 in restitution to two insurance companies, the release states.
The release gave this chain of events:
In 2007, Anthony Woodcock promised to pay Avery, Cooper and Flory $1,000 each to help demolish his 2006 Dodge Magnum.
Woodcock and Avery left the Dodge near the intersection of Grant Line and Douglas Roads in rural Sacramento County after driving a nail into a tire, causing it to go flat. They walked to a nearby residential area, where they had earlier parked Woodcock's truck.
During their walk, they called Cooper and Flory, who were waiting nearby, and told them where to find the car so they could burn it. Cooper and Flory set the Dodge on fire using gasoline and nitro methane. However, when the car exploded, Cooper and Flory suffered non-life threatening burns.
During their walk, they called Cooper and Flory, who were waiting nearby, and told them where to find the car so they could burn it. Cooper and Flory set the Dodge on fire using gasoline and nitro methane. However, when the car exploded, Cooper and Flory suffered non-life threatening burns.
During this time, Woodcock and Avery drove to a nearby convenience store, parked down the street, and pretended to make a call from a pay phone so they would be captured on the store video as an alibi.
They then drove back to the Magnum while firemen were extinguishing the blaze and told police at the scene that they had just returned to fix the flat tire. Woodcock later filed insurance claim for the loss of the vehicle.
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