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CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES

A 44-year-old Glendale man on probation for an arson conviction has been sentenced to 16 years in state prison after pleading no contest to arson stemming from a series of fires in Griffith Park last year, prosecutors said Monday.

As a result of the plea, prosecutors dropped three felony counts of arson against Gary Allen Lintz, who admitted to the special allegations of great bodily injury to a firefighter and of having a prior arson conviction. He could have faced 20 years if convicted on all the counts.

-- Andrew Blankstein

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