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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 8 (UPI) -- Three Alabama college students reportedly looking for cheap thrills were held Wednesday on charges they set fire to nine rural Baptist churches.
Benjamin Moseley, 19, of Birmingham; Russell DeBusk, 19, of Hoover; and Matthew Cloyd, 20, of Indian Springs were being held on federal charges of conspiracy and malicious damage, U.S. Attorney Alice Martin said.
Authorities linked tire tracks left at six of the nine churches to a car owned by Cloyd's mother, the government complaint said.
On Tuesday, Cloyd told an unidentified witness that he and Moseley had done "something stupid" that "got out of hand," prosecutors said.
Moseley told investigators Tuesday that he, Cloyd and DeBusk set fire last month to five Bibb County, Ala., Baptist churches.
Moseley also said he and Cloyd went to western Alabama days later and set four more churches afire as a diversion.
"Moseley said the diversion obviously did not work," the government complaint said.
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