LINCOLN (AP) — An 18-year-old man is facing an arson charge for flipping over his family's couch and lighting it on fire in their home.
Ty Thompson was expected to make his initial court appearance Tuesday. Lincoln police arrested him Saturday evening.
Police say Thompson was making threats while in a car with his mother and her two other children. When they got home, Thompson went into the house, flipped over the couch and started it on fire.
The fire was out by the time police and firefighters arrived, but Thompson was arrested after police found that he had a lighter.
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