SIKESTON WOMAN GETS PRISON ON ARSON CHARGE

A Sikeston woman will serve 51 months in prison and pay over $3 million in restitution for a fire that she had set last June.

Donna J. Wages, 44, was sentenced by Judge E. Richard Webber on Monday, the U.S. attorney's office said.

Wages had pled guilty to setting the fire, which destroyed the Riggs Wholesale Co. building in Sikeston. She had set the fire to cover up thefts of money that she had taken from the company, the U.S. attorney's office said.

Wages was ordered to pay back $2,416,046.77 to Indiana Lumberman's Mutual Insurance Co. and $735,791.99 to her former employer.

Additionally, Wages will have three years of supervised probation following her prison term.