Officials say inmates at a St. Louis jail have set fires, broken out windows and thrown things from fourth-floor windows in the latest disturbance over conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A man has been charged in the investigation of a Jan. 14 fire in the Nodaway County Jail.
Ethan Bentley, 29, of Rulo, Nebraska, was charged for allegedly starting an arson fire in the jail at approximately 7:57 p.m. Jan. 14.
Nodaway County Prosecuting Attorney Caleb Phillips formally charged Bentley with arson in the first degree, a class B felony, in that the defendant knowingly damaged an inhabitable structure, and did so when people were present, thereby recklessly placing such people in danger of death or serious physical injury.
Mark Bentley, of Rulo, Nebraska, has been charged in the investigation of a Jan. 14 fire at the Nodaway County jail.