A 35-year-old Laguna Niguel man was booked on 13 counts of arson, one count of arson to an inhabited structure and one count of parole violation, Long Beach police said.
A man was arrested on suspicion of arson after authorities said he set fire to flags in front of several homes in East Long Beach.
John Leo Meylor, 35, of Laguna Niguel, was booked Thursday into the Long Beach City Jail on 13 counts of arson, one count of arson to an inhabited structure and one count of parole violation, Long Beach Police Department spokesperson Richard Mejia said.No injuries were reported from the fires. A car and the outside of a home were damaged, authorities said.
The first report came in around 3:30 a.m. Thursday about a vehicle fire in the 2800 block of Iroquois Avenue, said Capt. Jack Crabtree, a spokesperson for the Long Beach Fire Department. The car was in flames after a flag hanging over the driveway where it was parked was set ablaze and fell onto the canvas convertible top.
As fire personnel were extinguishing that blaze, calls came in reporting fires outside other homes, Crabtree said.
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