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Ore. woman charged with arson over missing keys

09:37 AM PDT on Saturday, September 8, 2007

ASSOCIATED PRESS

FLORENCE, Ore. -- A Florence woman is in jail charged with arson and burglary after allegedly setting fire to the home of a neighbor she thought had stolen her keys.

KGW

Sgt. Clint Riley of the Lane County Sheriff's Office said Amanda Lee McDaniel, 23, later found her keys in her pants pocket.

She is held in the Lane County Jail in lieu of $350,000 bail.

McDaniel called 9-1-1 Wednesday to report the fire in this coastal community. She lives next door to the burned house with her boyfriend.

According to a police report, McDaniel told a deputy that after discovering her keys missing, she went to the neighbors' trailer, removed a screen from a window and climbed inside. The neighbors weren't there.

She said she threw glass objects at a television and used a knife to stab a computer monitor, according to the report.

She then got lighter fluid and cooking oil from her own home and returned to the neighbors' place, trying to start a fire by spraying lighter fluid on a hot stove burner.

When that didn't work she allegedly placed the cooking oil and a stuffed animal on the stove, according to the report.

She called 9-1-1 and hid in a bush across the street while deputies and firefighters responded, Riley said.

McDaniel's boyfriend said a friend called him at work and he rushed home to find McDaniel hiding in the bushes, barefoot and incoherent, according to the report.

McDaniel told him her keys were missing, Riley said. The boyfriend pointed to a set of keys hanging from her pants pocket, and "she began to cry," Riley said.

A damage estimate was not immediately available.

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