News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 3, 2008
In matters prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia:
LOGAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY FOR ROLE IN ARSON CONSPIRACY
CHARLESTON, WV – Daniel Lee Hall, 41, of Logan, West Virginia pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. admitting to his role in a conspiracy to commit arson. Hall admitted that shortly before July 7, 2003, he reached an agreement with Ivron Hall whereby Ivron Hall would burn rental property owned by Daniel Lee Hall at Mitchell Heights, Logan County, West Virginia (the "rental property"). On July 7, 2003, Ivron Hall set fire to the rental property causing substantial damage thereto. Shortly thereafter, Daniel Lee Hall submitted an insurance claim on the rental property. However, because the rental property had not been totally destroyed by the July 7, 2003 fire, the insurance company, by letter dated July 25, 2003, found that a portion of the rental property was salvageable and therefore agreed to pay only a portion of the amount Daniel Lee Hall had claimed.
Shortly thereafter, Daniel Lee Hall requested that Ivron Hall again set fire to the rental property. On August 11, 2003, Ivron Hall again set fire to the rental property. The August 11, 2003 fire resulted in a total loss and Daniel Lee Hall was paid the total amount of his original insurance claim, $94,870. Then, on March 25, 2004, in partial payment for burning the rental property, Daniel Lee Hall purchased real property in the name of Ivron Hall for $6,000.
Hall faces a mandatory minimum five years and a maximum of 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 25, 2009 at 1:30pm. Assistant United States Attorney Booth Goodwin is handling the prosecution. Sergeant T.C. Bledsoe of the West Virginia State Police investigated the case.