Man Charged With Arson After Setting Fires Inside Ontario Mills Mall

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

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

Officers recovered nan 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 nan arrest, nan constabulary said.

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

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

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

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

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

In nan 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 astir nan fires Friday astatine Ontario Mills Mall is asked to interaction nan city’s constabulary section astatine (909) 986-6711.