An El Segundo woman is going to prison after pleading out to setting seven fires. Barbara Nania plead no contest Monday, April 20th to arson charges and received an immediate 16-month prison sentence. The 64-year-old woman was suspected of setting seven fires, including two at El Segundo churches. Nania accepted a plea deal on seven felony counts. Nania’s spree began August 19 of last year with a fire at a yarn store. She also set fire to the lobby of an Episcopal Church while a service was in session and set fire to robes at a Catholic Church. She was apprehended when a patrol officer recognized her from a surveillance video. Nania will face a restitution hearing the first week in May.
Tom Perumean, KABC NEWS.
