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Man gets maximum sentence for killing girlfriends pets in fire

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MACOMB COUNTY MI A 30yearold man was sentenced to prison for setting his girlfriends home on fire killing her cats Jesse Humphrey was sentenced to a minimum of six to 20 years in prison on Thursday Dec 4 Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido said in a news release Circuit Court Judge Joseph Toia sentenced Humphrey to the top sentencing guidelines for the crime rather than following the probation departments recommendation of 60 to 240 months Lucido said Todays sentence sends a clear message the prosecutor said This defendants deliberate act of setting the fire and killing two innocent animals was both cruel and deeply destabilizing to the victim and the community Arson is a violent crime and the intentional harming of pets is an act of profound cruelty He will receive credit for 438 days already served behind bars Humphrey was convicted in October of two counts of seconddegree arson and two counts of firstdegree animal killing for the fire Prosecutors said Humphrey started the fire at his thengirlfriends Warren home in September 2024 The woman was not home at the time but Humphrey knew her cats were in the home when he set it ablaze according to the prosecutors office The home was destroyed in the fire and the pets were killed After setting the fire Humphrey fled the scene but was eventually arrested in Warren Humphrey was ordered to have no contact with the victim or her family no social media contacts and no attempts to address her in any way the prosecutor said He was also ordered to pay the victim 15000 restitution as a condition of parole

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