The colony teen who pled no contest to setting fire to the Colony Community Church the day after Christmas last year was sentenced to 12 months probation and $2,000 as part of a plea agreement late last month. In exchange for the no-contest plea on an initial arson charge as well as a charge of criminal damage to property, a second previous charge of property damage as well as an aggravated assault charge against 16 year-old Kaiden Robb, was dropped. Robb’s sentence included $2,000 in restitution as well as several hundred dollars in court fees.
The incident was apparently spawned by a domestic dispute with his grandparents December 26th of last year, in which Robb allegedly threatened one of them with a knife before being found later in the smoke-filled church in Colony. Robb was retrieved from the church by a responding sheriff’s deputy. Responding firefighters brought the blaze under control, but it reignited overnight and destroyed the remainder of the structure.
