DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A Duluth building contractor convicted of vandalizing a client’s duplex over a billing fight has been sentenced to almost seven years in prison.
A jury convicted 35-year-old Adam Leroy Seavey of first-degree arson. He was sentenced Friday to the maximum possible term of six years, nine months.
A Duluth News Tribune report (http://bit.ly/S3ommx ) says Seavey declined to comment before sentencing. Defense attorney Mikkel Long told the judge his client maintains his innocence.
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Duplex owner Jason Branstrom testified that he refused to pay Seavey $15,000 after Seavey did substandard construction work for him.
Surveillance video shows a suspect in dark clothes and mask setting fire to Branstrom’s duplex with four people inside. Separate video shows Seavey buying dark clothes and a ski mask from a Wisconsin Wal-mart.
No one was hurt.
