Instead of being dead or undergoing treatment for serious burns 34-year-old Charles Benjamin Franklin IV of Buna is instead in the Jasper County Jail following a bizarre episode that is said to have occurred late Friday afternoon.

Jasper County Sheriff Chuck Havard said officers dispatched to Franklin's home just off of Highway 96, near Buna shortly after 4:00 to serve a warrant on Franklin who was accused of trying to set his girlfriend on fire just three days ago.

Havard said that as the officers arrived at the home Franklin barricaded himself in his home and poured gasoline all over his body and the house.

Havard and others begged for some time for Franklin to come out and give himself up. However, deputies along with State Troopers ended up forcing their way into the home as the man

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