Associated Press - November 13, 2009 10:04 PM ET
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a 21-year-old Keokuk man has pleaded guilty to three counts of arson affecting interstate commerce.
Prosecutors say Travis Lee Thrush entered his plea Friday in Davenport and is scheduled for sentencing in March.
In an indictment handed down May 6, Thrush was accused of setting fire to an educational building at the First Baptist Church of Keokuk in May of last year, and starting another fire at a septic tank business in Keokuk last Jan. 6. The third fire, on Jan. 9, involved a large number of hay bales at the County Market in Keokuk, and authorities said that blaze forced precautionary evacuations because of propane tanks stored near the hay.
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