YOUNGSTOWN — Phillip Lawrence, 45, West Ravenwood Avenue, was indicted Thursday on one count of arson, a fourth-degree felony.

The charge was filed by Campbell police and involves a Jan. 11 incident in which Lawrence is accused of starting a fire in a temporary Campbell Police Department holding cell.

Lawrence was indicted on one count of arson, a fourth-degree felony. The charge was filed by Campbell police and involves a Jan. 11 case in which Lawrence is accused of starting a fire in a temporary Campbell Police Department holding cell.

A Campbell police report states that at 2:29 a.m. Jan. 11, a dispatcher saw a prisoner in the cell who had ignited an object, causing it to be on fire.

The dispatcher told a police officer in the same room with the dispatcher about the fire and alerted the Campbell Fire Department. The officer and dispatcher entered the cell and saw Lawrence in the doorway. The cell door was burning at the front and rear bottom corners, and a T-shirt on the floor was burning, the report states.

The officer used a fire extinguisher to extinguish the fire and prevent further damage. Lawrence was removed from the room and placed in handcuffs and leg shackles. Two officers who were working road patrol arrived, as well as a fire department captain.

The cell and hallway were ventilated because of an accumulation of smoke, and photographs of the damage and other evidence were taken. A burned lighter and an unburned lighter, as well as a burned T-shirt were taken as evidence.

No estimate of the amount of damage was given in the report.

Lawrence was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

The officer who extinguished the flames was writing a report when he learned of the fire, the report states.

The officer stated that when he went to the holding cell, he saw a T-shirt on fire and a lighter next to it. Lawrence stated: “That’s what y’all get for not letting me call my lawyer,” the report states.

“A short time later, I went to check on Lawrence in the holding cell, and he had a second lighter in his hands and stated ‘I was going to set my other T-shirt on fire if you didn’t catch me,'” the report states.

The second lighter was removed from Lawrence, and he was “checked again to make sure he didn’t have any items on him,” the report adds.

Lawrence was arraigned in Campbell Municipal Court on Jan. 13 in the case. The case was bound over to a Mahoning County grand jury Jan. 23 after Lawrence waived a preliminary hearing. He has been in the Mahoning County jail since Jan. 11, according to jail records.

The report does not indicate the reason Lawrence was in the holding cell, but t an OVI charge was filed against him Jan. 11, also by Campbell police, according to Campbell Municipal Court records. The OVI charge was bound over to common pleas court with the felony arson charge. But Lawrence was not indicted on the OVI charge, according to common pleas court records.

OTHER INDICTMENTS

Others indicted Thursday are:

• Brandon Clinkscale, 33, West Evergreen Avenue, receiving stolen property.

• Benjamin E. Kane, 47, West Boulevard, Boardman, theft.

• Geraldo Morales Vega, 37, Mahoning County jail, breaking and entering and possession of criminal tools.

• Elisha Hargrove, 18, Stone Mountain, Ga., improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle..

• Jeremy S. Weingart, 32, Main Street, New Middletown, aggravated theft.

• Karl Magee, 19, Mahoning County jail, vandalism.

• Morgan Welsch, 33, Forest Park Drive, Boardman, theft of drugs.

• Jequan Broomfield, 37, Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, 2240 Hubbard Road, three counts of harassment with a bodily substance.

• Mande L. Babyak, 50, Gail Drive, Hermitage, forgery and tampering with records.

• Timothy L. Overton Jr., 27, Hammaker Street, aggravated drug possession.

• Frank D. Little, 35, Aberdeen Avenue, two counts of aggravated drug possession and one count of fentanyl-related compound possession.

• Jeffrey L. Hake, 66, Lynchburg, Va., cocaine possession.

• Ruby M. McCauley, 29, Mahoning County jail, cocaine possession.