By Gary Lloyd
Convicted church arsonist and 2004 Clay-Chalkville High School graduate Benjamin Moseley is expected to be released from federal prison next Tuesday.
Moseley has been serving his federal time at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution Victorville in Adelanto, Calif.
Moseley, 27, is projected to be released Tuesday with a “good conduct time,” according to information obtained from the Federal Bureau of Prisons
. Moseley has been serving a 97-month sentence for conspiracy to commit arson resulting in personal injury and arson resulting in personal injury.
Federal Correctional Institute Victorville
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Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said Moseley will likely start his two-year state sentence in Kilby Correctional Facility near Montgomery before being transferred.
Moseley, along with Birmingham-Southern College classmates Russell DeBusk and Matthew Cloyd, were arrested in March 2006 for a string of church burnings in rural Alabama. No one was injured in the burnings.
DeBusk received a shorter federal prison sentence in the burnings, as he participated in five of them in Bibb County on Feb. 3, 2006. Moseley and Cloyd burned four more churches in Sumter, Greene and Pickens counties on Feb. 7, 2006, in an attempt to throw off investigators.
The case was solved by federal agents who traced the tire tracks left by an SUV driven by Cloyd, which led to their arrests in March 2006.
DeBusk was released from federal prison on April 12, 2012, and Cloyd was released from federal prison on March 22 of this year. According to Alabama Department of Corrections records, Cloyd is incarcerated at Draper Correctional Center in Elmore, with a release date set for March 20, 2017.
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