Driver flees from trooper, sets vacant house on fire

Tuesday, January 30 2007 | Tamara Johnson

Driver flees from trooper, sets vacant house on fire

Tuesday, January 30 2007

Driver flees from trooper, sets vacant house on fire

Chase and fire: Members of the Forrest City Fire Department were called to a fire at this vacant structure on County Road 419 Monday afternoon. A driver fleeing from state police caught the back porch and grass on fire with the exhaust of his vehicle as he was trying to hide from officers. Troopers arrested Paul Lee Oglesby, 53, of Paron. Photo by Kendall Owens

A motorist fleeing from a state trooper Monday afternoon set fire to an abandoned house he was trying to hide his car behind in rural St. Francis County.

The trooper said his radar registered the 1999 Mercedes 500 convertible traveling eastbou...

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