A Green Bay man is facing charges after he allegedly set fire to an Ashwaubenon motel.
WFRV TV reports that Officers were sent to an unnamed motel on April 5th at around 9:50 p.m. on a report of a man, later identified as 37-year-old John Bartlet, who had cut his hand and was bleeding.
Officers went to Bartlet’s room and knocked, but he just asked for a band-aid to be slipped under the door.
As the officers were walking to their car, a motel patron began waving at them, pointing to four-foot-high flames coming from Bartlet’s room.
A battering ram was used to gain entry to the room, and the fire was doused.
Bartlet claimed he accidentally knocked over a candle, but an investigation revealed that the evidence to the contrary is “overwhelming.”
Bartlet was arrested on Charges of Arson of a Building and five counts of 1st Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety.
He is currently in the Brown County Jail on a $500,000 cash bond and is due back in court on April 25th for a preliminary hearing.