David G. Atwood II, a Warren County man who served a federal prison term for wire fraud and sexual enticement, has been charged with felony arson in Attala County.

Chief Deputy Fire Marshal Ricky Davis of the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office said Atwood surrendered to Attala County officials on charges that he burned the weekend home of his grandfather, Emmett Atwood of Vicksburg, in November 2009.

It wasn’t clear if the home was destroyed.

Attala records show the 28-year-old Atwood, 750 Rollingwood Drive, was released from the county jail Tuesday on a $50,000 bond.

Davis said Atwood was charged after an “extensive joint investigation” of the Attala County Sheriff’s Department and the State Fire Marshal’s Office.

In 2005, Atwood pleaded guilty in Jackson to charges of wire fraud and sexual enticement using a computer to entice a minor and was sentenced to five years and three months in a federal prison followed by five years’ probation but was given supervised release and ordered to pay $26,000 in restitution.

His supervised release was terminated in January 2010 for violating terms of his probation. It wasn’t clear if Atwood is still on probation.

Atwood was also tried in Warren County Circuit Court for felony malicious mischief in a case involving vandalism to a tractor. He had been indicted in October 2004 by the Warren County grand jury, but the case was handled by the Mississippi Attorney Generals’s Office when former District Attorney Gil Martin recused himself and his office from prosecuting.

Atwood’s September 2009 trial ended in a mistrial when jurors were unable to agree on a verdict, and in March the charges were dismissed by the attorney general when the victim declined to pursue the case further.

He ran unsuccessfully for Warren County constable in 2002 at age 19, and filed to run for sheriff in 2003 but did not compete in the election.

Earlier this year, Atwood published an autobiography, “Into Hell I Rode,” which focuses on the criminal justice system. If convicted of felony arson, he could face a maximum of 10 years in prison.