Police: Wingo Man Set Fires over Photo Dispute

Police arrested a Wingo man Saturday on arson and criminal mischief charges, after responding to multiple fires they say he intentionally set.



Deputies with the Marshall County Sheriff's Office were dispatched early Saturday Morning to a report of a vehicle that was stuck in a large creek bed fully engulfed in flames just south of 1st street in Hardin. Officers met with members of the Hardin-South Marshall Fire Department at the scene. Police said they suspected that the vehicle had purposely been set on fire. While Responders were on scene battling the vehicle blaze, another call came in about a structure fire at 163 Commerce Street in Hardin.



Police said one of the victims inside the home also owned the vehicle that was set on fire. Deputies said they later determined that both fires were set by the victim's alleged boyfriend, 22-year-old Corey Glentz, of Wingo. Glentz was still at the scene of the house fire when deputies arrived. Glentz reportedly told deputies he had been in a dispute with the victim over a picture, and said he had set fire to the vehicle in the creek and returned to set the house on fire. The woman and two children were in the house at the time the blaze started. Everyone was able to get out safely.



Glentz is charged with 1st degree arson and 1st degree criminal mischief.