2-Year Prison Term Given for Setting Apartment Fire : Courts: Woman had pleaded guilty to arson, child endangerment. Incident followed argument.
An Anaheim woman was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for setting fire to her apartment in April after an argument with her boyfriend, authorities said.
Christina Lee Martin, 29, had pleaded guilty to child-endangerment and arson of an inhabited dwelling in an April 5 blaze at the apartment complex in the 700 block of Beach Boulevard. She was sentenced by Municipal Judge Richard E. Behn in Fullerton.
Martin was upset after a breakup with her boyfriend and set three separate fires in her bedroom about 12:40 a.m., according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Mike Fell. Martin fled with her two children but left two roommates asleep in the next room, Fell said.
Fell said the roommates escaped after the smoke awakened them. At least three other tenants had to leap from second-floor windows to escape the fire, but no one was injured, Fell said.
The fire caused about $25,000 damage.
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