Arizona man sentenced after setting fire to Grand Canyon National Park cabin where ex-girlfriend stayed

An Arizona antheral who acceptable occurrence to a compartment successful the Grand Canyon National Park wherever his ex-girlfriend was staying was sentenced past week to astir 2 years successful prison. 

Dahntay Dunbar, 21, a Flagstaff resident, was arrested successful May aft helium broke into her locked compartment and acceptable a occurrence inside, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. 

Federal prosecutors said that Dunbar had recovered a vessel of wide liquor and dumped it connected a furniture earlier igniting a garment belonging to his erstwhile girlfriend. She was not successful the compartment astatine the time. 

"The furniture started to burn, and Dunbar near the cabin," a DOJ connection said. "The occurrence caused scorching, pain damage, and fume harm to the walls, ceiling, and different parts of the cabin."

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Entrance motion for Grand Canyon National Park successful Arizona. A antheral volition service situation clip aft mounting occurrence to a compartment wrong the park, national prosecutors said.  (Jim Lane/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A bystander saw the blaze and extinguished astir of the flames earlier firefighters arrived connected the scene, according to tribunal documents. 

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Dahntay Dunbar volition walk 2 years successful situation for mounting the fire. (Pilar Arias/Fox News Digital)

The compartment was owned by the edifice institution Xanterra. The blaze caused much than $40,000 successful damage, authorities said. 

Dunbar was arrested by parkland rangers a abbreviated clip later. On July 8, helium pleaded blameworthy to arson of a dwelling. 

Days earlier the fire, Dunbar got into a quality with the unnamed pistillate and punched done 1 of the windows, tribunal documents state. 

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In summation to a situation sentence, helium was ordered to wage $20,146.13 successful restitution and is taxable to 5 years of supervised merchandise aft helium serves his time.