Setting a vacant home on fire will result in a Fond du Lac man spending two-and-a-half years in prison.
Sixty-year-old Merlin Jolin was sentenced Tuesday. He had been convicted on an arson charge for the fire in Fond du Lac in December 2019. Witnesses told investigators about seeing Jolin leaving the home shortly after the flames appeared. He was taken into custody about a block from the scene of the fire.
Jolin admitted to setting it, saying he was trying to get warm.
