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.
La Raza member....what are the odds?
Toast?
A guatamalan.
A psycho one at that.
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.
Toast on a fork...
Hmmmm . . . let's see . . . British Isles ancestry?
Pineda, Pinata
Tomatoes, tomatoes.
Post number 5 and we have a winner.
DANG! We ARE good.
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
Sorry, Cagey had the link. But you get a cookie!
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.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/geronimo-dev/200511.mbox/author?3
So is he legal or illegal? Did I miss something in the article?
That's how local officialdom contributes to the success of terrorists, criminals and crazies.
At some point they have to be held accountable.
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...
no way in hell did he know what he was doing - the way this was calculated. There are bigger fish to fry.
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!!
They didn’t state his immigration status in the article. We’ll have to wait and ses.
This is rather a sharp poke in the eye for the illegal immigration lovers. Lets hope it has the desired effect.
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