BUFFALO, N.Y. — A man from Blasdell has pleaded guilty to arson for setting a number of fires inside a church in the Town of Hamburg.
The Erie County District Attorney's office says 21-year-old Victor Afonin admitted to breaking into a church on McKinley Parkway using a baseball bat back in April, then setting three different fires, "which caused damage to the carpet in the chapel, a hymn book in the choir area, and the counter top in the sacristy," according to the district attorney's office.
Those fires caused $50,000 in property damage.
Afonin has been ordered to serve one year of interim probation, with an order of protection also in effect.