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I Told You Not to Bother Me at the Office

Joy Glassman, 60, has been charged with arson for setting as many as 11 fires in the Shasta Trinity National Forest so her firefighter son could get paid more. “She just did it on her own, figuring she was helping him,” noted Mark Reina, an investigator for the California Forestry Department, adding that they do not believe her son knew about her activities. Glassman faces 20 years in prison. Her son has resigned his job. (AP) ...So back to his old job, replacing the street signs that keep disappearing from his neighborhood.


Publication Date: 6 August 1995

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 2.
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