Plea and sentencing hearings are scheduled for today in Indiana County Court, including one for a man charged with burning down a family farm in North Mahoning Township last year.
Court documents show that 58-year-old Troy Kromer of Punxsutawney will enter pleas today to charges of arson with danger of death or injury, reckless burning, criminal mischief, risking a catastrophe, dangerous burning and arson with intent to destroy an unoccupied building in connection with an incident on January 13th of last year. State police accused him of setting a fire that destroyed a home on Smith Road in North Mahoning Township. When fire marshals determined the fire was intentionally set, an investigation lead police to Kromer who reportedly told his family he did it and said he had “five more houses to burn”. When police confronted him about the blaze, he said he burned the house down because of “dragons” and that God told him to do it.
His case goes before Judge Michael T. Clark this morning.
