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OXFORD BUSINESSWOMAN CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED ARSON
BOSTON, MA - An Oxford businesswoman was convicted late yesterday in federal court of attempted arson and two counts of solicitation for hiring two individuals to burn down Rox’s Nightclub, a bar that she owned in Oxford, MA.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, Glenn N. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in New England and Chief Michael J. Boss of the Oxford Police Department announced today that ROXANNE TROY, age 48, of 137 Main Street, Oxford, was convicted by a jury sitting before U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV of attempted arson and two counts of solicitation to commit arson.
Evidence presented during the seven-day trial proved that, in or about February 2007, TROY paid someone $5,000 to burn down Rox’s Nightclub, a bar that she owned in Oxford, MA, with the promise of an additional $5,000 upon completion of the job. When that plan failed, TROY solicited a second individual to burn down the bar, offering the individual money and providing keys to the bar so that the fire could be set from the inside and made to look like an accident.
In a tape recorded conversation between TROY and a confidential witness, TROY discussed the arson plans. According to testimony at the trial, TROY’s motive for the attempted arson was the failing financial health of Rox’s Nightclub. On March 24, 2009 a federal jury convicted TROY of attempted arson and two counts of solicitation to commit arson.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV scheduled sentencing for June 16, 2009. TROY faces a minimum mandatory sentence of five years imprisonment up to twenty years imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine on each of the three counts of conviction.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Oxford Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys David Hennessy and Karin Bell of Sullivan’s Worcester Branch.
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