4 TEENS SUSPECTED IN FIRES; ARSON INVESTIGATORS REQUESTING CHARGES.Byline: Daily News Fire officials said four teen-age boys have been linked to three fires and an explosion last February and March in Central Park. The California City Fire Department's arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. investigation unit has asked the Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County District Attorney's Office to file charges of arson and detonation of a destructive device A destructive device is a firearm or explosive device that, in the United States, is regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934. Examples of destructive devices are grenades, and firearms with a bore over one half of an inch, including some semi-automatic shotguns. against the boys. The boys, ages 14 to 17, have not been arrested, fire Capt. Chris Hayes Chris Hayes may refer to:
The fires burned grass, tule tu·le n. 1. Any of several bulrushes of the genus Scirpus, growing in marshy lowlands of the southwest United States. 2. tu·les Northern California Marshy or swampy land. reeds and other vegetation in Central Park, and charred a park bridge, Hayes said. Fire officials are not releasing details of the destructive device, for fear of encouraging others to make similar bombs, he said. Fire officials said the department is cracking down on arson, and is using all its available resources to investigate arson fires and prosecute arsonists. Investigations are continuing in arson fires late last year that burned vacant houses on Karen Avenue and Mendiburu Road, Hayes said. In an unrelated case, an Aug. 5 house fire in the 8400 block of Bay Avenue was determined to have been caused by children ages 4, 6 and 9 playing with a cigarette lighter in a bedroom closet. One child suffered minor burns trying to put out the fire, Hayes said. |
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