Video: Man Sets Patrol Vehicle On Fire Outside California Police Station

A California man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after surveillance video showed him douse a parked patrol vehicle in an undetermined flammable liquid and set the car ablaze early Thursday morning.

Staff Writer
December 6, 2019

A California man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after surveillance video showed him douse a parked patrol vehicle in an undetermined flammable liquid and set the car ablaze early Thursday morning..

According to KTLA-TV, the man—identified as 24-year-old Elmer Maldonado set fire to the patrol car in the parking lot of the Hawthorne (CA) Police Department.

Maldonado was arrested without incident several hours after the incident.

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