A fire in Hodgenville resulted in a man’s arrest.
The Hodgenville Police Department was the first agency on the scene Monday morning for a reported structure fire at a residence on the 400 block of Campbellsville Road. Upon arrival shortly after 4:30 a.m., responding officers saw a garage on the property was on fire and alerted the Hodgenville Fire Department.
The fire spread from the garage to an adjacent trailer on the same property. Surrounding homes were also damaged in the blaze. The two structures that caught fire directly were deemed a total loss.
Nobody was located at the property at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported. The HPD says the investigation eventually revealed that Jimmy Puckett, the property’s resident, started the fire, and told officers he “set the fire in order to go to jail.”
The investigation into the incident is ongoing. Puckett was lodged in the LaRue County Detention Center on a Second Degree Arson charge.
