Palisades fire suspect placed gun in stuffed animal, made recent fire threat, feds allege | NYGazet

Prosecutors allege that Rinderknecht "maliciously set" a brush fire just after midnight on Jan. 1 that eventually grew into the deadly inferno.

The 29-year-old man accused of sparking one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles allegedly threatened to burn down his home in Florida last month during an argument with a relative and then showed his father a gun, according to federal pr... [3169 chars]