When firefighters showed up to put out a blaze at a Pompano Beach laundromat in March 2013, they found the owner outside in his underwear and a tank top, with his wrists duct-taped to his body.
At the time, Leon Lorenzo Frazier said two masked and armed men had robbed his business, forced him to help them douse the building with gasoline and set it on fire. He said they then restrained him and took off in his truck with about $2,700 they stole from him.
But on Wednesday, Frazier and his lifelong friend and distant cousin, Adrian Donyl Jackson, both pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge.