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<p>CHILLICOTHE, Ohio &#8212; Authorities say an Ohio property owner admitted setting his vacant trailer home on fire because he&#8217;s tired of renting it to people addicted to drugs.</p><p>The Chillicothe Gazette reports Ross County sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrived at a property owned by 41-year-old Robert Violette last week and found him trying to extinguish a fire in one of his trailers with a garden hose.</p><p>An incident report says Violette told deputies he wanted to torch all the trailers because of tenants who were misusing drugs.</p><p>A township fire department put out the blaze and issued Violette a warning.</p><p>Violette didn&#8217;t return the newspaper&#8217;s calls for comment.</p><p>Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed a lawsuit in Ross County in May against five drugmakers, accusing them of helping create the region&#8217;s opioid epidemic.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em> &#8212; The Associated Press</em></p><style>
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Tired of addicts for tenants, owner torches trailer