ELLSWORTH (AP) – A Sedgwick woman accused of setting fire to a house to get back at her ex-boyfriend is going to prison for four years.
Amber Yurchick, who’s 20, was ordered to serve four years of a nine-year sentence for arson.
She could have received up to 30 years in prison when she was sentenced Thursday in Hancock County Superior Court.
Witnesses testified that Yurchick acted out of revenge because her former boyfriend was seeing someone else.
She admitted going to the home to confront her ex-boyfriend, but she said it was her brother who set the fire. In the end, prosecutors dropped charges against her brother in exchange for his testimony against Yurchick.
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