More than a year after the post office in Coral burned, the former junior firefighter who pleaded guilty to setting the fire will be sentenced in Indiana County Court.
20-year-old Aaron Scott Liggett admitted guilt in five separate cases for a series of fires between March 1st and April 5th of last year in Center Township. The total damage in the five fires was more than $400,000, and residents who once used the post office in Coral continue to use the Homer City post office while theirs is being rebuilt.
Facing a total of fifty criminal offenses, 26 of them felonies, Liggett pleaded guilty to s single count of each of the five fires, with agreement for non-prosecution on the remaining crimes.
In the post office fire, he pleaded guilt to one count of arson endangering property-reckless endangerment of an inhabited building. The fire was set in a burn barrel in back of the post office and wind carried the flames into the building. He pleaded guilty to felony arson of an inhabited building in the burning of a mobile home along Timberland Drive eight days before the post office fire. He also pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of failure to control in each of the three other cases, for fires set in the woods along Luciusboro Road, in the woods along Murray Avenue, and in the grass along English Lane.
