Posted Thursday February 4, 2010 7 months ago
TOWN OF NEWBOLD, Wis. (WSAU) – The state fire marshal's office is investigating a blaze at the Rhinelander-area home of a man convicted of faking a story that he was injured in a Northwoods shootout in 2008.
Paramedics took 55-year-old John “Homer” Van Meter to St. Mary's Hospital in Rhinelander. A hospital spokeswoman says he was in fair to good condition, treated and transferred. The spokeswoman could not say where Van Meter was transferred.
The Oneida County sheriff's department got a 9-1-1 call about the fire just after 6 a.m.
The sheriff's office, Newbold Fire Chief, and the state Fire Marshall are investigating the blaze.
Van Meter was convicted by a jury of obstructing an officer in Lincoln county in 2008 after Van Meter alleged he was injured in shootout near Tomahawk.
No one else was arrested in the matter and Van Meter was sentenced in September 2008 to a short jail stay and probation in the highly publicized case.
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