(From the L.A. Times) A man sought for questioning in the massive Station wildfire that killed two firefighters has been arrested and charged with setting a smaller blaze less than a week before in Angeles National Forest, authorities said Monday.
Babatunsin Olukunle, a 25-year-old Nigerian national, appeared briefly in a Pasadena courtroom and pleaded not guilty to the felony charge of setting a fire Aug. 20 on U.S. Forest Service land.
“We are going to talk to him about the Station fire, but we’re not going to list him as a suspect [in that fire] just yet,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Liam Gallagher, who is leading the arson-homicide probe.
The arrest comes as officials announced Friday that the largest brush fire in Los Angeles County history had finally been contained — a full 52 days after it started.
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