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29-Year-Old Arrested in Florida in Deadly Pacific Palisades Wildfire Case

Prosecutors say GPS data placed the rideshare driver within meters of the ignition point on New Year’s.

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Neun Monate nach einem tödlichen Waldbrand in einem Nobelvorort von Los Angeles haben die Behörden einen mutmaßlichen Brandstifter festgenommen. Er soll in der Neujahrsnacht das Palisades-Feuer gelegt haben, bei dem zwölf Menschen ums Leben kamen.
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Overview

  • Authorities said the suspect was taken into custody on a federal charge of destroying property by fire nine months after the blaze.
  • Investigators reported GPS logs placed him about ten meters from the origin as he tried to report the fire, with no motive identified.
  • Officials displayed AI-generated images found on his devices, including a burning-city depiction that investigators say he created with ChatGPT.
  • Prosecutors allege he was working as an Uber driver and set the fire shortly after dropping passengers at a popular Pacific Palisades trail.
  • The January blaze killed 12 people in the neighborhood and destroyed more than 6,000 structures after smoldering, re-igniting, and spreading toward Malibu.