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Suspect arrested with ‘flamethrower’ near LA Fire is an illegal immigrant
NYPost.com ^ | 1/13/25 | By Jennie Taer and Patrick Reilly

Posted on 01/13/2025 8:39:22 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Suspect arrested with ‘flamethrower’ near LA Fire is an illegal immigrant

The homeless man tackled and zip-tied by onlookers who say he was trying to start fires with a blowtorch near a Los Angeles wildfire is an illegal immigrant who will likely be protected by California’s sanctuary city status, according to sources.

The suspect is Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, a Mexican national who is in the United States illegally, sources told The Post.

He was chased and taken down by residents of Woodland Hills after they allegedly saw him torching old Christmas trees and debris on fire with what one resident described as a “flamethrower” soon after the massive wildfire began Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aliens; california; fire; illegal; juansierraleyva; sierraleyva
An illegal? In California? I'm shocked!
1 posted on 01/13/2025 8:39:22 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Is this the guy who had 5 cell phones? And a United Nations debit card? The guy who wasn’t charged with arson? The guy being protected by the Sanctuary system?


2 posted on 01/13/2025 8:41:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Free food, free housing and walking-around money. It’s the American way.


3 posted on 01/13/2025 8:44:14 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I am doubly shocked that a newspaper used the words illegal immigrant!

Just starting the fires that Americans won’t start.


4 posted on 01/13/2025 8:47:56 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Is that all TRUE?


5 posted on 01/13/2025 8:50:29 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Some people estimate one and six people in California are now in the country illegally.


6 posted on 01/13/2025 8:54:53 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

1 in 6


7 posted on 01/13/2025 8:55:15 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Some stupid with a flare gun.


8 posted on 01/13/2025 8:55:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Now we know why they didn’t charge him even though witnesses saw him lighting fires with a flamethrower. If you’re an illegal immigrant you have permission to do anything you want.

No federal help for California if they’re going to do this. California should pay for its own crimes against its own people. If they want to harbor arsonists with a record of past violence, they need to pay the damages themselves, not get the rest of the country to pay for their own insistence on lawlessness.


9 posted on 01/13/2025 8:57:40 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

10 posted on 01/13/2025 8:59:00 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dragnet2

I lived there when it was 1 in 10. I used to tell people....just imagine you’re walking through the mall and every 10th person is an illegal. You could actually see a light turn on. lol


11 posted on 01/13/2025 9:03:41 AM PST by sheana
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; All

That flamethrower is nothing more than a plumbers torch… a fancy cigarette lighter. A cup of gasoline would be more effective.


12 posted on 01/13/2025 9:07:44 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: dragnet2
They have entire cities in SoCal where virtually everyone is an illegal alien and Spanish or some other language is the primary spoken language.

Go to the Walmart and grocery stores and virtually all of them are paying for their purchases with Cali EBT welfare cards.

13 posted on 01/13/2025 9:08:55 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

One of Pedo Joe’s “20 million” freeloading foreigners living off the backs of the gringo taxpayers.


14 posted on 01/13/2025 9:13:58 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Florida Felons "convicted" in New Yawk Kangaroo Courts by bozos make the best presidents!!!)
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15 posted on 01/13/2025 9:27:03 AM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

A “flamethrower”??? Looks like a typical butane torch used for soldering plumbing and whatnot to me.


16 posted on 01/13/2025 9:30:14 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: dragnet2

Whatever the number of illegal aliens, it’s still too many.


17 posted on 01/13/2025 9:34:39 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I didn’t know that a handheld mapp gas torch was actually a flamethrower.


18 posted on 01/13/2025 9:38:33 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ClearCase_guy

This is the guy reported on X to have 5 cell phones and a UN debit card:

https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/1877749993336910050


19 posted on 01/13/2025 2:38:08 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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