A southwestern Indiana man was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to setting a May fire that gutted a historic century-old building which had been slated for restoration. A Vanderburgh County judge sentenced 25-year-old Charles James Perrin on Tuesday after the Evansville man pleaded guilty to felony charges of arson and criminal mischief. The Evansville Courier & Press reports Perrin was arrested on May 18 and accused of setting fire the previous day to the Pearl Laundry Center building in downtown Evansville. The Pearl Laundry Center was built in 1912 and added in 1984 to the National Register of Historic Places.
