YOUNGSTOWN — When Youngstown Municipal Court employees finished processing all of the arson charges filed against Will A. Jones on Tuesday morning, he had 18 counts of arson — 14 of them aggravated arson, three of low-level felony arson and one of misdemeanor arson.

Jones, 59, will be arraigned today. If he is convicted of the aggravated arsons, he could get more than 100 years in prison.

The reason Jones faces so many aggravated arson charges is that one count is filed for every person in a house when it is set on fire, said Youngstown fire investigator Chris Hodge. The fires were all between Nov. 21 and Nov. 25. Each count of aggravated arson carries a maximum sentence of about 11 years in prison.

Hodge said eight people were at home in a fire Jones is accused of starting on Willis Avenue on Nov. 22. Four people were home in a fire Jones is accused of starting on Oak Hill Avenue on Nov. 23, and two people were at home in a fire Jones is accused of starting on Woodland Avenue on Nov. 23 — all on the South Side.

The three house fires were set just prior to Jones being arrested Nov. 26 at the Western Reserve Transit Authority bus station at 340 W. Federal St. downtown. At the time, Jones was wanted for an alleged parole violation related to a previous arson conviction.

Documents in the Jones’ criminal case files in Youngstown Municipal Court state that Jones admitted to committing all three house fires, as well as arsons inside of several cars in the city — two vehicles Nov. 22, causing over $1,000 in damage to each car; and two vehicles Nov. 25.

A Youngstown police report released Friday stated that Jones was taken to jail the afternoon of Nov. 26 after he admitted that he had committed several arsons. Jones is a suspect in seven arsons involving seven crime scenes, Hodge said.

According to a news account, four people escaped a burning house fire in the 600 block of Oak Hill Avenue on Nov. 23 when flames broke out about 3:30 a.m. Details on the two other house fires were not available Tuesday.

Hodge said it appears that Jones did not have any connections to Youngstown and may have been sent here to transition back into the community after being released from prison in late July.

Hodge was staying at the Carter House Men’s Recovery House at 27 Willis Ave., according to court documents.

Ohio prison records state that Jones was scheduled for release from the Ohio prison system last July after serving a nine-year prison sentence on two counts of aggravated arson out of Cuyahoga County. He had been imprisoned in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville before being released.

Jones was convicted of setting a fire on Guthrie Avenue in Cleveland on Aug. 3, 2016, according to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court records that also confirmed that Jones was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2017 on arson related offenses.

Youngstown police reported on what may have been Jones’ last two arsons Nov. 25, a day before he was arrested.

The first was at a business in the 500 block of Market St. about 3:40 a.m. A property owner told police the suspect walked over to a vehicle, opened the door and put a burning piece of paper inside the car and walked away.

An officer saw what appeared to be a burned piece of paper on the seat, as the property owner had described, according to a police report. A video showed the man doing these things and then walking across Market Street to 25 Ridge Ave., a short distance south of downtown, where another vehicle fire occurred a short time later, the report states.

A surveillance image captured a pair of “unique two-toned shoes” on the suspect.

A report also was filed on the Ridge Avenue fire, which was reported at 4:20 a.m. Nov. 25.

The police report from the Ridge Avenue car fire states that the property owner was awakened by his security cameras and saw smoke coming from his car. He went outside and saw fire coming from the vehicle.

Youngstown firefighters arrived and extinguished the fire. An arson investigation was going to be carried out, the report states.

No injuries were reported, and no estimate of damage was reported in either fire Nov. 25.