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KingsFanAshley


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Detectives say a 16-year-old Yucaipa boy may have set up to a dozen fires in the Inland Empire over the last three years, including the large Oak Glen and Pendleton blazes.

[Update: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that detectives believe the suspect may be responsible for fires set only over the last month.]

Police arrested the teenager at 4:39 p.m. Wednesday near the scene of a fire in the Crafton Hills area. Authorities had been alerted by witnesses, who said a teen was riding a bicycle away from the fire on Chapman Heights Road. After interviewing the juvenile, officers arrested him on suspicion of arson.

He's being held on suspicion of setting that blaze, and officials said they are investigating whether he set the other fires, said San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Mike Ramos. Ramos would not provide details about what officials believe links the boy to the other fires.

 

"It's early in the investigation, but we are looking at him in connection with multiple fires," he said. "It's a very serious case. Our county has had its share of fires in the last decade that have destroyed peoples' property, peoples' homes and peoples' lives."

Ramos added the department is considering trying the boy as an adult.

Earlier this month, a 13-year-old El Monte boy was charged with two felonies for allegedly starting the Morris Dam Fire on Aug. 25 that burned more than 2,100 acres north of Azusa, prosecutors said. The youth, whose name was withheld by prosecutors because of his age, is accused of felony arson of a forest and recklessly setting fire to a forest or structure.

-- Andrew Blankstein

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/16yearold-might-have-set-a-dozen-brush-fires-inland-empire-prosecutors-said.html#more

What kind of punishment do you feel this member of our own age bracket deserves? Should he be treated as a minor or given normal legal treatment?



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wow that boy needs to be punished. He cost a lot of property damage.

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I just really want to know, why would anyone do something like that? I mean, they gain absolutely NOTHING, in fact, they probably put their own home in danger along with the hundreds of others. He has to be, well, completely insane to do something like that.

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If any of these fires resulted in the death of any civilians or firefighters, I feel murder charges should be pursued along with arson. Plus, I think it would be fair for them to gather his belongings and light them on fire right before his eyes, so he can see how it feels for innocent people to lose everything. That may be considered unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment, but that's just my two cents ;)

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I think he should be punished. I agree to some extent what some news stations are saying that these fires that are being set should be considered terrorist crimes. I want to see this kid in a mental hospital because he definantly has problems to put hundreds of people out of their homes.

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He should be punished... severely.

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