SBI agents investigating events surrounding state Sen. R.C. Soles Jr. have arrested a Tabor City teenager for setting fire to the house the senator helped pay for.
Allen Wayne Strickland, 17, was charged Thursday with one count of fraudulent burning of a building and one count of attempting to obtain property by false pretenses, both felonies, reports Michael Biesecker and Mark Johnson.
The charges stem from a July 29 fire at Strickland’s home, located at 99 March Avenue in Tabor City. Soles, 74, has said he helped pay for the construction of the house.
The SBI is investigating Soles after another man claimed in a TV interview that the senator fondled him when he was 15. The man later recanted.
The agency is also investigating an incident in which Soles shot an intruder at his home on Sunday. The man was not seriously injured. A lawyer for Soles has said the shooting was self defense.
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Re: Teen arrested in Tabor City fire
Soles is 74. What's with all the platitudes Isaac? If he had the affection and support of his community he'd be in a nursing home by now, not court. None of this is his fault, at 74 nothing is, I'm just saying. Is nobody under 50 around there qualified to vote in Raleigh? Good God, let the man retire before he gets killed.