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19-year-old sentenced to 5.5 years for subway arson

Published 24 June 2026

A 19-year-old man was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, for setting a sleeping homeless man on fire aboard a New York City subway train last December. Hiram Carrero received the sentence from Judge Lewis J. Liman in Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty to arson in March.

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