FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – A convicted arsonist from Fort Worth who told a Tarrant County judge to “go [expletive] yourself” was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday for setting fire to what he thought was his estranged wife’s house.
44-year-old Samson Moses Billiot was convicted of arson to a habitation last week.
Authorities, who labeled Billot as armed and dangerous, arrested him last August on numerous charges in addition to the arson.
The charges include several counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making a terroristic threat and a parole violation.
Prosecutors decided to try Billiot on the arson charge because they had surveillance footage of him pouring lighter fluid on the house in the 2500 block of West Waggoman Street and setting it ablaze on August 11.
The state also accused him of setting his mother-in-law’s Fort Worth home on fire and shooting bullets at the home while it was occupied on August 3rd.
Billiiot is no stranger to the legal system.
He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1998 after he hit a woman in the face with a baseball bat outside a Fort Worth bar in 1997. He was released in 2013.
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