By Demorris A. Lee, Times Staff Writer
Sunday, January 23, 2011
SEMINOLE — It took hours of sweat equity, nearly a dozen classes and background checks to gain ownership of the Habitat for Humanity home.
Late Saturday night, all that work went up in flames.
A man who had an ongoing feud with the woman who lived at the house, at 8624 112th St. N, set it on fire while she was not home, authorities said.
The suspect, Paul R. Bowers, 52, of Madeira Beach had broken into the same house just last week, investigators said. And the woman who lived there had twice filed for protection orders against him, records show.
"This is not a happy day," said Barbara Inman, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County. "We never had arson at any Habitat house around the country. If so, I'm not familiar with it."
Bowers, arrested ...
