Federal prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from the Baltimore man who last year burned down the home where his former girlfriend and two other people were living, in a prosecution that followed a remarkably light initial sentence from the state.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland said that Luther Moody Trent, 21, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property by fire for the arson he carried out in the predawn hours on May 21, 2021.
That morning, federal prosecutors said, Trent’s former girlfriend and her two roommates were inside a home when Trent poured gasoline on the exterior of the structure and set it on fire.