RAINELLE -
A Danese man has avoided prison for his role in the torching of vehicles at a police barracks.
A judge gave 23-year-old Nicholas Michael White a suspended sentence and sent him to the Anthony Correctional Center for youthful offenders.
If White meets the court's conditions and completes the center's program, he won't face further incarceration.
He pleaded guilty earlier to four third-degree arson counts.
White had testified against his great-uncle, 48-year-old David White of Meadow Bridge, and several other co-defendants. A jury convicted David White last week.
Nicholas White was sentenced Friday in Greenbrier County Circuit Court.
The 2011 fires at the West Virginia State Police barracks in Rainelle destroyed two State Police vehicles and several others that had been seized.
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The West Virginia State Police updated a release on the verdict against David White, who torched two State Police vehicles and several other cars and trucks that had been seized and were stored at the detachment in Rainelle.
White was found guilty on nine counts of retaliation, eight counts of third degree arson, one count of second degree arson and three counts of conspiracy.
Two other men, Ray Goff and Nicholas White, were also involved with the crime. They accepted plea agreements and testified at the trial as State witnesses.
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More than a year after an explosion at the West Virginia State Police detachment in Rainelle, a jury delivers a verdict against one man in the case.
David White, 48, of Meadow Bridge was found guilty on 21 charges of arson on Tuesday, Feb. 5. White was one of five people who were arrested for torching five cars at the Rainelle Detachment on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.
Quick action and the work of up to 25 state troopers brought in the suspects less than a week later. The other suspects were Joshua Redden of Meadow Bridge, Nicholas White of Danese, Jennifer White of Meadow Bridge and Floyd White of Danese.
"These people were quite well-known to law enforcement and during the course of our investigation, the evidence and the interviews led us directly to these people," said Sgt. Michael Baylous at the time of the arrests.
Baylous also said that Redden, Nicholas White and David White had been suspects from the beginning of the investigation.
David White has been in the Southern Regional Jail on a $1,000,000 bond. There is no word on when he will be sentenced.
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