Kettering police and fire departments responded around 12:30 a.m. July 3 to a fire in the 2100 block of East Baatan Drive.
Initially, a resident was believed to be in the basement where the fire was, according to a Kettering police log. Due to heavy smoke, police could not go inside. Kettering firefighters searched the house but did not find anyone inside.
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Two people were sleeping in the house at the time of the fire, according to an affidavit filed in Kettering Municipal Court.
Investigators determined Flowers intentionally set the fire in the basement and left without telling the residents about the fire, police and court records stated.
He was arrested later that morning at his residence in the 2200 block of South Smithville Road.
Flowers is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 20, and agreed to have no contact with the two men who were inside the house.
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