Convicted arsonist African-American Shanta Dargbeh has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for torching her boyfriend’s home because he took another girl to his high school prom in 2008

The 22-year-old black woman cried and apologized for the blaze that destroyed the Hillcrest Avenue home of Mayor Tony Mack’s half-brother Stanley “Muscles” Davis. “I’m sorry to the victims,” Dargbeh said in a voice barely audible in the courtroom. The midnight fire roused Davis, his wife and their six children from their beds and forced them to flee the flames via a third-floor fire escape. In December 2011, jurors acquitted Dargbeh of attempted murder but found her guilty of arson, burglary and weapons offenses for entering Davis’ porch with a box of matches and setting a couch on fire on May 22, 2008. Burglary, the most serious of the convictions, is a second-degree offense that carries a sentencing range of five to 10 years in prison. Superior Court Judge Thomas Sumners sentenced her to the lowest prison term for a second-degree offense. She also received four-year sentences for each of the arson and weapons charges. Under the terms of her sentence she must serve 51 months before becoming eligible for parole. She has served 45 months since her arrest, making her eligible for parole in six months.