A judge sentenced Kevin Carlson to 11 years for setting fire to Bidwell Mansion. He's also ordered to pay over $37 million in ...

Kevin Alexander Carlson, sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in state prison for his arson Bidwell Mansion, stated he was ...

Proposition 36 toughened penalties which could have added 15 years to Kevin Carlson’s sentence — if his crime had occurred a ...

Three months after Chico’s 156-year-old Bidwell Mansion was deliberately set ablaze, 30-year-old Kevin Andrew Carlson was ...

Carlson, 30, was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in state prison — the maximum penalty for felony arson — after admitting to ...

OROVILLE — The Chico man responsible for setting fire to Bidwell Mansion was sentenced to state prison Wednesday at the Butte County Superior Courthouse. Kevin Alexander Carlson, 30, of Chico ...

Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey said that Kevin Carlson got six years for the arson and an additional five years ...

On a cold December day, Kevin Alexander Carlson walked the streets of downtown Chico, weighed down by discontent. Hours later, the city’s most storied landmark was an inferno, reduced to little ...

OROVILLE — Kevin Alexander Carlson ... and doing the same in Chico. Carlson stated he drove downtown, parked and brought a gas can, hammer and lighter to Bidwell Mansion; he broke a window ...

Kevin Alexander Carlson, 30, of Chico, received a maximum sentence from the court totaling 11 years in state prison and a ...

she asked, adding, “Kevin Carlson assaulted me without even touching me.” Galvin Matthews called the fire “a major crime against not only the people of Chico, but against California history.” ...