Court proceedings are continuing for a Kalona man who is charged with arson in the first degree. On Friday a pretrial conference will be held for Reuven Miller at the Washington County Courthouse, with a jury trial scheduled for May 13th.

In January, 39-year-old Miller was arrested in Kalona after attempting to set a house on fire while knowing that his father was inside the residence. According to court records, on January 28th Miller claimed to law enforcement that he had a bomb inside a house, and he attempted to catch the house on fire with his father still inside. He had put two boxes of fireworks side by side and it was described that he lit the cardboard boxes on fire and that nine of the fireworks did explode. The house did not catch fire.

Miller was arrested and was listed as combative and angry.

He is charged with harassment, an aggravated misdemeanor, and arson in the first degree, a class B felony. If convicted, a maximum sentence for a class B felony is 25 years.