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Los Angeles has rediscovered law and order in these past few days. LA cops and sheriff’s deputies have arrested at least 20 looters and on Thursday night they arrested a man who was seen setting the nearly 900 acre Kenneth Fire in Woodland Hills/Calabasas.
KTLAreportsthatneighborsontheCitizenappreportedthemanwholookspossiblyMiddleEasternwas“tackledandheld”byneighborsuntilpolicegotthereandplacedhimunderarrestthoughhehasn’tbeencharged.
Residentswhoreportedlyspottedthesuspectheldhimdownuntilofficersarrived.PhotosofthearrestsharedontheCitizenappshowofficerssurroundingahomewhereamalesuspectwasapprehended.
Authoritieshavenotconfirmedwhetherthemanwasresponsibleorhadanyconnectionwiththecurrentwildfires.Hisidentitywasnotreleased.
TheKennethFirewasfirstreportedaround2:30p.m.inanareaofdrybrushintheUpperLasVirgenesCanyonOpenSpacejustnorthofthe101Freeway.By6p.m.,thefiregrewto960acreswithzerocontainment.
Here’salookatthesuspect.
FoxLAreporterElexMichaelsonreportedthatthemanishomelessandinhis30’s.
