INDIANAPOLIS — A Beech Grove man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison after a pair of 2021 fires he ignited caused over $1 million in damages to an Amtrak facility and over $100,000 in damages to a Greenwood apartment building.
Casey Sage, 35, of Beech Grove, was sentenced after pleading guilty to arson of federal property and arson of property of an organization receiving federal financial assistance, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana.
Court documents say that on May 1, 2021, Sage entered a Beech Grove Amtrak facility that is used to repair rail cars. He started a blaze there and it spread to another building close by. Both structures were destroyed, causing more than $1.1 million in damages.
Investigators also found that Sage had started a fire in the Greenwood apartment of his ex-girlfriend a few weeks before the Amtrak arson. That fire caused more than $110,000 in damages.
