HPP: A lady who is 43 years old will be sentenced to more than ten years in prison for causing a destructive house fire in a laundry room by using gasoline and a bag of Takis tortilla chips.
In accordance with the records of the Greene County court system, Patricia Williams was given a sentence of twelve years in prison after she entered a guilty plea to the charge of first-degree arson.
On August 11, 2023, a woman called 911 to claim that another woman had set fire to her house, as stated in the probable cause statement that Williams submitted.
Representatives from the Springfield Fire Department and officers from the Springfield Police Department arrived at the location and discovered a number of individuals who were standing outside and asserted that Williams was the one who ignited the fire.
In the affidavit, the police stated that Williams “had soot on her face and was complaining of smoke inhalation.”
Williams was discovered by the police immediately after the incident. The flames were quenched by firefighters, and Williams was taken to the hospital by paramedics and transported there.
As soon as the police discovered that Williams was wanted for two separate offenses, they sent an officer to accompany her.
In a statement to the police, two of the three victims stated that they watched Williams pour gasoline from a Coke bottle over clothing and on the floor of the laundry room.
They also stated that they saw Williams “ignite Takis chips on fire and then toss the chips into the laundry room, which ignited the gasoline and clothing.” A third victim who was confined to a wheelchair was assisted by those two victims in leaving the premises.
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After entering the residence, an investigator from the Springfield Fire Department discovered a green Coke bottle that had “a strong odor of an ignitable liquid” as well as an open bag of Takis chips.
The investigator in question “determined the Takis chips could support a flame during a field flammability test.”
Williams stated that she “used the chips because she knew they would support combustion because of their grease content.” This statement was made in communication with the detectives.
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