NASHVILLE – Tennessee investigators said they have made arson arrests in Sequatchie and Hardin counties.
A state Department of Agriculture e-mail says officers arrested 68-year-old Walter David Stockwell of Dunlap on two counts of setting fire to personal property or land. There are also charges pending in several other arson fires in Grundy, Van Buren, Marion and Hamilton counties.
A jailer said Stockwell was arrested Thursday and was being held Friday without bond.
The e-mail said more than 800 acres have burned due to arson in Sequatchie County in the past week.
In Hardin County, 56-year-old William David Scott of Savannah has been charged with four counts of setting fires that burned more than 120 acres. Scott was arrested Sunday and was being held on a $35,000 bond.