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New arson arrest made in California as authorities investigate fires
China View ^ | 2007-10-26 | Yan Liang

Posted on 10/25/2007 5:37:24 PM PDT by TLI

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Another man was arrested on suspicion of arson in California as authorities were investigating into some of the wildfires that have been devastating large areas in the state for five days, officials said Thursday.

Los Angeles police said they have taken Catalino Pineda, 41, into custody Wednesday after local residents reported that he light a fire and walked away from a hillside in a suburb area.

The arrest was made a day after law enforcement officers shot dead an arson suspect and detained another in San Bernardino, about 100 kilometers east of Los Angeles.

Californian authorities and local FBI offices were jointly investigating at least two of the dozen wildfires in Southern California, where at least 1,500 homes had been destroyed and more half a million people displaced since Sunday.

President George W. Bush was in California Thursday to tour the fire-ravaged region, champion already exhausted firefighters and comfort tens of thousands people still staying in evacuation centers.

Bush earlier on Wednesday declared the seven counties in Southern California a major disaster area, paving the way for fire victims to receive federal relief assistance.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: alien; aliens; arson; california; criminalaliens; daylaborers; fires; guatemala; illegal; immigrantlist; immigration; jornalero; pineda; sunvalley; wildfires
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Anybody want to speculate on his "immigration status?"
1 posted on 10/25/2007 5:37:25 PM PDT by TLI
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To: TLI

La Raza member....what are the odds?


2 posted on 10/25/2007 5:39:26 PM PDT by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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To: TLI
Anybody want to speculate on his "immigration status?"

Toast?

3 posted on 10/25/2007 5:39:27 PM PDT by umgud (Axis of Propaganda; lib academia, lib media, lib entertainment)
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To: TLI

A guatamalan.

A psycho one at that.


4 posted on 10/25/2007 5:40:15 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: TLI

From:

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=88101

Pineda, a Guatemala native, was booked for investigation of arson and held on $75,000 bail. He’s currently on probation for making excessive false emergency reports to law enforcement, police said.


5 posted on 10/25/2007 5:40:29 PM PDT by Cagey (Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.......Thoreau)
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To: umgud
Toast?

Toast on a fork...

6 posted on 10/25/2007 5:40:42 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Catalino Pineda

Hmmmm . . . let's see . . . British Isles ancestry?

Pineda, Pinata

Tomatoes, tomatoes.

7 posted on 10/25/2007 5:41:25 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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Pineda, a Guatemala native,

Post number 5 and we have a winner.

DANG! We ARE good.

8 posted on 10/25/2007 5:42:04 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Police booked Catalino Pineda, a day laborer from Sun Valley, into the Los Angeles County Jail where he was being held on an arson charge. Bail was set at $75,000.

Pineda is a native of Guatemala. He is currently on probation for making excessive false emergency reports to law enforcement, police said.

http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7277798


9 posted on 10/25/2007 5:43:12 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: BurbankKarl

Sorry, Cagey had the link. But you get a cookie!


10 posted on 10/25/2007 5:44:36 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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He’s currently on probation for making excessive false emergency reports to law enforcement, police said.

So before possibly setting a fire that could cause 100s of millions of dollars he was just makin' the phone calls that waste tax payers monies that other American's won't make.

11 posted on 10/25/2007 5:44:57 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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Not sure if this is the same guy but his name comes up on this site a lot.

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/geronimo-dev/200511.mbox/author?3

12 posted on 10/25/2007 5:45:38 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs....doing the job of the media.)
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Pineda is a native of Guatemala.

So is he legal or illegal? Did I miss something in the article?

13 posted on 10/25/2007 5:46:28 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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[ MSM in meetings desperate to hide the fact he is an 'undocumented alien'... ]
14 posted on 10/25/2007 5:47:42 PM PDT by Swanks
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To: GOP_Lady
Just guessing that in all the investigations into his "excessive calls" not once did any of these California cops bother to check his legal status.

That's how local officialdom contributes to the success of terrorists, criminals and crazies.

At some point they have to be held accountable.

15 posted on 10/25/2007 5:47:57 PM PDT by muawiyah
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held on $75,000 bail

75,000. For contributing to what happened in CA. If I were to take a drunken swing at a cop I would get more that that.

Of course, I am an American Citizen with a steady job. I ought to get 2-5 years for that alone...

16 posted on 10/25/2007 5:48:55 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: GOP_Lady

no way in hell did he know what he was doing - the way this was calculated. There are bigger fish to fry.


17 posted on 10/25/2007 5:49:16 PM PDT by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: umgud
Toast?

lol. :-) Let's hope so. Of course that would also mean keeping him from coming back in which may just be the hardest job of all. Harder than putting down these fires apparently. God bless all those who have been harmed or have lost their homes by the way and also ALL of the firefighters!!

18 posted on 10/25/2007 5:51:02 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: GOP Poet

They didn’t state his immigration status in the article. We’ll have to wait and ses.


19 posted on 10/25/2007 5:52:49 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: TLI

This is rather a sharp poke in the eye for the illegal immigration lovers. Lets hope it has the desired effect.


20 posted on 10/25/2007 5:55:55 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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