AN ALABAMA WOMAN AND HER FATHER have both been arrested and charged with felonies following a botched arson. Haleigh Elizabeth Boland, 26, and her father, Benny Gene Boland, 50, both of Boaz, were apparently miffed when Haleigh’s Jeep was repossesed recently. So they drove over to the residence of the man who repo’d the car and had it parked in his driveway, where Haleigh attempted to set the Jeep on fire in retaliation.
Failed firesetters Haleigh (l.) and Benny Boland
Unfortunately for the Bolands, they didn’t know that the repo man keeps a surveillance camera trained on his driveway and it caught the amateur arsonist in the act. Watch the video and you will see her pouring some accelerant on the Jeep and then a path for a starter. When she has trouble getting it going, she makes a costly error setting herself on fire and runs off with her clothes ablaze. She can be seen tossing clothes off as she runs to the waiting get-away car where Benny was the “wheel man.”
She was easily apprehended two days later when she showed up at hospital seeking treatment for 2nd-degree burns on her upper body. After questioning by the sheriff’s deputies, she admitted that she had done the deed. Both Bolands were arrested and each charged with one count of first-degree criminal mischief as Darwin nodded.
The Gadsden Times has the STORY.
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