Man charged with arson after setting fires inside Ontario Mills mall - BERITAJA

A man was arrested Friday greeting aft he group aggregate fires wrong stores astatine the Ontario Mills mall, officials said.

Ontario constabulary said they responded to the promenade astatine about 10:30 a.m. aft callers reported that a man pinch a lighter and a backpack was intentionally mounting fires.

Officers recovered the suspect, who they identified arsenic 28-year-old Luis Javier Gallegos Jr. of Rancho Cucamonga.

The constabulary said successful a connection that Gallegos did not comply pinch their requests, and they utilized unit to apprehension him.

Both Gallegos and an serviceman suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the arrest, the constabulary said.

After being treated astatine a hospital, Gallegos was booked into the West Valley Detention Center and charged pinch felony arson, the constabulary said.

Police said they are moving to place a motive for the crime and whether location is immoderate relationship to the April 7 arson astatine the Kimberly-Clark storage successful Ontario.

Prosecutors opportunity the inferno destroyed the 1.2 cardinal square-foot storage and the insubstantial products inside, resulting successful $500 cardinal successful damages.

Chamel Abdulkarim, a Highland resident who worked astatine the warehouse, is facing some authorities and national arson charges for mounting the fire.

Abdulkarim, 29, filmed himself mounting occurrence to aggregate pallets of insubstantial goods, according to the U.S. attorney’s agency for the Central District of California.

In the video, he says, “If you’re not going to salary america capable to [expletive] unrecorded aliases spend to live, astatine slightest salary america capable not to do this [expletive].”

Anyone pinch accusation about the fires Friday astatine Ontario Mills Mall is asked to interaction the city’s constabulary section astatine (909) 986-6711.