Man charged with setting a series of brush fires in bone-dry Massachusetts

The Attleboro Sun-Chronicle reports a man was arrested over the weekend on charges he set a series of brush fires in the city - and that he is a s suspect in a fire set not long before his arrest.

Court records show he was formally charged with three counts of burning land, trees, lumber or produce, each of which carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison, for fires set across the city last Tuesday.

At his arraignment today, the 72-year-old man was ordered held at the Bristol County House of Correction after failing to come up with the $1,000 cash bail a judge set, records show.