A man who caught his Dubuque residence on fire while trying to make methamphetamine will spend nearly 20 years in prison. Forty-seven-year-old Cory Cole admitted to cooking meth at his house on May 30th of 2013 and said the meth lab caught the house on fire.
Two other people who were not involved in making the meth were inside the house when it caught fire and the home is located within 1,0000 feet of an elementary school. Cole was sentenced to 19-and-a-half years in prison for his guilty plea to a charge of attempting to make meth within 1,000 feet of a school.