Serial arsonist who targeted B.C. restaurants sentenced to five plus years in prison

An arsonist who caused more than half a million dollars in damages when he set fire to two Metro Vancouver restaurants has been sentenced to more than five years in prison.

RCMP in Burnaby, B.C., say a court also sentenced Steven Sorenson last month to serve three years probation after his release.

Sorenson, who is 50 years old, was convicted by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in November for setting three fires, two of them in April 2020, targeting a Korean restaurant and a sushi restaurant in Burnaby.

Police say the fires caused extensive damage, and officers from the RCMP’s economic crime unit reviewed hundreds of hours of surveillance video to identify

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