Mr.Smartypants
November 5th 07, 02:19 AM
On Nov 1, 5:59 pm, "SiamGarden" > wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/26/fire.arson/index.html
>
> (CNN) -- Officials are searching for the driver of a white truck seen on
> Santiago Canyon Road on Sunday, near the time the Santiago fire started,
> Orange County authorities said Friday.
>
> "These people are not suspects at this time," Orange County Fire Authority
> Chief Chip Prather said. "They are persons of interest who were seen near
> the fire in a vehicle like this."
>
> The vehicle is a white, 1998 Ford F150 pickup with chrome tubular running
> boards.
>
> Prather said the information came from a lead called into the
> investigation's tip line.
>
> A $250,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of
> the person or persons responsible for the blaze. Watch how residents feel
> about arsonist »
>
> The Santiago fire, now 27,000 acres and still burning, was deliberately set,
> officials said Thursday.
>
> Several mandatory evacuations remain in place for the Santiago fire, which
> has destroyed 14 homes and various other structures. Late Friday afternoon,
> the blaze moved into Silverado Canyon, authorities said. Sheriff's deputies
> were evacuating residents in the fire's path. Watch the Santiago flames
> rage »
>
> Authorities also suspect arson in the Rosa fire in San Diego County, which
> burned more than 400 acres before being fully contained. There was no
> information on the investigation.
>
> Elsewhere, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office filed arson
> charges Friday against a 41-year-old Sun Valley man who witnesses said set a
> fire in the West Hills neighborhood and walked away.
>
> Catalino Pineda is one of five people who have been arrested in arson
> investigations this week, but none of them has been linked to the major
> wildfires raging across Southern California.
>
> Pineda was arrested Wednesday after witnesses said they saw him lighting a
> fire on a hillside, police said. The fire was quickly extinguished. The
> witnesses followed Pineda to a nearby restaurant and called police, who
> arrested him.
>
> Pineda was expected to be arraigned in Van Nuys Superior Court Friday,
> Deputy District Attorney Steven Frankland said. He is charged with one count
> of arson of a structure or forest.
>
> Pineda is being held on $75,000 bail and faces up to six years in prison if
> convicted.
>
> In San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, John Rund, of Hesperia, was arrested
> Wednesday on arson charges after a witness reported seeing him in brush near
> the starting point of a fire Tuesday, the sheriff's department said. That
> fire was quickly put out by passers-by.
>
> Investigators are trying to determine if Rund, 48, may have ties to other
> wildfires. He is being held on $750,000 bail.
>
> The San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office on Thursday filed arson
> charges against Anthony Riperti, 47, of Redlands. A statement from the
> office did not say when or where Riperti is accused of setting a fire. He is
> being held on $250,000 bail.
>
> In San Diego County, the sheriff's department this week arrested an adult
> and a juvenile allegedly seen by an anonymous tipster starting a fire in
> Vista in the northern part of the county. In a written statement, the
> sheriff's department identified the adult as Gorgonio Nava. The Vista fire
> Department extinguished the blaze before it grew out of control, the
> statement said.
>
> Investigators have determined that the Grass Valley fire in San Bernardino
> County was not caused by arson, and a preliminary investigation into the
> cause of the 11,675-acre Slide fire seems to indicate arson was not a
> factor, sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Beaver said.
>
> More than 1,600 homes have been destroyed in the past week by Southern
> California wildfires.
>
> --
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Funny how the ONLY people ever caught driving white vans/trucks turn
out to be JOOZ.
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/26/fire.arson/index.html
>
> (CNN) -- Officials are searching for the driver of a white truck seen on
> Santiago Canyon Road on Sunday, near the time the Santiago fire started,
> Orange County authorities said Friday.
>
> "These people are not suspects at this time," Orange County Fire Authority
> Chief Chip Prather said. "They are persons of interest who were seen near
> the fire in a vehicle like this."
>
> The vehicle is a white, 1998 Ford F150 pickup with chrome tubular running
> boards.
>
> Prather said the information came from a lead called into the
> investigation's tip line.
>
> A $250,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of
> the person or persons responsible for the blaze. Watch how residents feel
> about arsonist »
>
> The Santiago fire, now 27,000 acres and still burning, was deliberately set,
> officials said Thursday.
>
> Several mandatory evacuations remain in place for the Santiago fire, which
> has destroyed 14 homes and various other structures. Late Friday afternoon,
> the blaze moved into Silverado Canyon, authorities said. Sheriff's deputies
> were evacuating residents in the fire's path. Watch the Santiago flames
> rage »
>
> Authorities also suspect arson in the Rosa fire in San Diego County, which
> burned more than 400 acres before being fully contained. There was no
> information on the investigation.
>
> Elsewhere, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office filed arson
> charges Friday against a 41-year-old Sun Valley man who witnesses said set a
> fire in the West Hills neighborhood and walked away.
>
> Catalino Pineda is one of five people who have been arrested in arson
> investigations this week, but none of them has been linked to the major
> wildfires raging across Southern California.
>
> Pineda was arrested Wednesday after witnesses said they saw him lighting a
> fire on a hillside, police said. The fire was quickly extinguished. The
> witnesses followed Pineda to a nearby restaurant and called police, who
> arrested him.
>
> Pineda was expected to be arraigned in Van Nuys Superior Court Friday,
> Deputy District Attorney Steven Frankland said. He is charged with one count
> of arson of a structure or forest.
>
> Pineda is being held on $75,000 bail and faces up to six years in prison if
> convicted.
>
> In San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, John Rund, of Hesperia, was arrested
> Wednesday on arson charges after a witness reported seeing him in brush near
> the starting point of a fire Tuesday, the sheriff's department said. That
> fire was quickly put out by passers-by.
>
> Investigators are trying to determine if Rund, 48, may have ties to other
> wildfires. He is being held on $750,000 bail.
>
> The San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office on Thursday filed arson
> charges against Anthony Riperti, 47, of Redlands. A statement from the
> office did not say when or where Riperti is accused of setting a fire. He is
> being held on $250,000 bail.
>
> In San Diego County, the sheriff's department this week arrested an adult
> and a juvenile allegedly seen by an anonymous tipster starting a fire in
> Vista in the northern part of the county. In a written statement, the
> sheriff's department identified the adult as Gorgonio Nava. The Vista fire
> Department extinguished the blaze before it grew out of control, the
> statement said.
>
> Investigators have determined that the Grass Valley fire in San Bernardino
> County was not caused by arson, and a preliminary investigation into the
> cause of the 11,675-acre Slide fire seems to indicate arson was not a
> factor, sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Beaver said.
>
> More than 1,600 homes have been destroyed in the past week by Southern
> California wildfires.
>
> --
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Funny how the ONLY people ever caught driving white vans/trucks turn
out to be JOOZ.