By C1 Staff
NEW YORK — A 480-pount man who sued the city of New York after he was forced to wear bed sheets when another inmate stole his extra-large clothes was given more time for setting a building fire.
The New York Post reports that Freddie Harvin, 53, pleaded guilty late last year to trying to burn down a Crown Heights home in September 2013. He was sentenced to four years behind bars.
While Harvin served time at Rikers Island for arson charges, another inmate swiped his entire prison wardrobe after Harvin went to the hospital for two days in July.
“I am a very large man weighing four hundred and eighty pounds,” Harvin wrote in his lawsuit. “My clothes are really irreplaceable and the Dept. of Corrections has nothing in my size and I’m walking around in bed sheets.”
Harvin got a lighter sentence for the arson by pleading guilty to a lesser arson charge.