UPDATE: Sellars pleaded guilty to one count of property damage and one count of knowingly burning during a hearing on Oct. 15.

A judge sentenced him to seven years in prison on each charge, but suspended that sentence. If he successfully completes five years of probation he will not serve time in prison for the crimes.

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HOLDEN, Mo. (KCTV) - A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Holden man accused of starting more than half a dozen fires along a rural Missouri highway in 2024.

Johnson County, Missouri, Circuit Court records filed on Monday, June 9, indicate that William H. Sellars, 35, of Holden, has been charged in connection with the fires that burned dozens of acres of grassland.

A probable cause statement filed by the Johnson County Sheriff’s

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