EASLEY, S.C. -- An Upstate woman is accused of setting her house on
fire the night before it was to be foreclosed.
Deputies said Andrea Leah Dalton Propes, 29, set fire to the home she
shared with her husband and child.
Investigators arrested Propes on Tuesday.
Deputies said that Propes poured gasoline in the house and set the
fire.
Neighbors re****ted the fire in the home on Woodbury Drive in Easley at
about 8: 45 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2007.
On the day of the fire, a deputy had posted a foreclosure lock-out
notice on the door of the home.
Investigators said that Propes denied knowledge of the foreclosure
action and setting the fire.
Propes is charged with second-degree arson. She was released on bond
Tuesday.
