Thousand Oaks Transient Sentenced For Setting Tent On Fire With 2 Men Inside

Wednesday August 21, 2024

     Updated--A Thousand Oaks transient has been sentenced to ten years in prison for setting fire to a tent with two other men inside.

     Now 36-years-old, Robert Burn had been charged with two counts of attempted murder for the attack that injured the two men inside the tent.

     But prosecutors allowed him to instead plead guilty to the lesser charge of Arson of an Inhabited Structure or Property and Assault with Force Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury.

     The attack happened on the late afternoon of November 16, 2021 at a homeless encampment in a ravine near the Oaks Mall in Thousand Oaks.

     The two other transients inside the tent managed to escape with their lives.

     Burn was located and arrested the next day but then released and re-arrested a few days later.

     In addition to the ten year prison term, Burn was also ordered to pay restitution to the victims and register as an arsonist.