A Vancouver woman who set fire to a porch in the Rose Village neighborhood was sentenced Thursday and given credit for time served.
Ashley S. Harper, 25, pleaded guilty in Clark County Superior Court to second-degree arson stemming from the Dec. 17 fire at 3307 U St. She originally faced attempted first-degree arson but that charge was amended as part of a plea deal, according to her attorney, Lisa Toth.
Sasha Gibson called 911 at about 7:30 a.m. to report her house was being set on fire by Harper, whom she knows. Gibson said she heard a noise on the front porch, looked, and saw Harper holding a gas can over a fire in the middle of the porch, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Superior Court.
Harper fled when Gibson confronted her, and left the gas can on the porch, the affidavit said.
