Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigators will provide more details Friday regarding the arrest of a suspect in numerous fires in the Fairfax district since May.
Detectives from the LAPD’s Major Crimes Division, working with LAFD arson investigators, identified the suspect, who was taken into custody at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
The specific fires the suspect was arrested in connection with were not announced. More details will be announced at a news conference Friday.
The LAFD’s arson unit has been investigating recent incidents of setting garbage on fire and burning discarded furniture, apartment complex gates and doors in the Fairfax district, KTLA reported. A Ford pickup parked on South Orange Drive June 7 was destroyed in a fire, according to KTLA.
The owner of the 1991 Ford F-150 pickup told KTLA he was planning on handing it down to his son one day.
“This is gone,” Evan Townsley told KTLA about his truck, which once belonged to his mother. “There’s nothing left, it’s not salvageable. It’s a mess. It’s disgusting, it’s sad and I don’t know why somebody would have it in their heart to do this to somebody else for no reason.”