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Woman Admits Setting Paterson Apartment Couch Fire That Ended Up Destroying Half A City Block Woman Admits Setting Paterson Apartment Couch Fire That Ended Up Destroying Half A City Block
Woman Admits Setting Paterson Apartment Couch Fire That Ended Up Destroying Half A City Block A New York City woman admitted Friday that she deliberately set a massive fire that roared through a Paterson block, displacing 60 residents and injuring four firefighters, during an argument last summer. Yanit Valdez took a deal from prosecutors rather than face trial, pleading guilty in Superior Court in Paterson to aggravated arson in exchange for what will be a six-year prison sentence. Valdez, 38, of Manhattan will have to serve five years and a month of the term under New Jersey’s No Early Release law, followed by three years of parole supervision, Passaic County Camelia M. Valdes sa…

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Angry Woman Set Huge Paterson Fire That Displaced 60 By Lighting Paper Towels, Indictment Says Angry Woman Set Huge Paterson Fire That Displaced 60 By Lighting Paper Towels, Indictment Says
Angry Woman Set Huge Paterson Fire That Displaced 60 By Lighting Paper Towels, Indictment Says UPDATE: A woman deliberately set a fire last summer that roared through a string of attached mixed-use buildings in Paterson -- displacing 60 residents and injuring four firefighters – during an argument with a tenant, authorities charged. Authorities didn’t suggest a possible motive when they announced that detectives had arrested Yanit Valdez, 38, of Manhattan 10 days after the massive Aug. 3 fire on Cianci Street. However, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Paterson this week accuses Valdez of lighting paper towels on a couch to settle an argument in an upper-floor apartment. Fla…

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by Jerry DeMarco