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An Indian American man was arrested early morning Dec. 8 in Fremont, California, for allegedly setting fire to four residential garage doors.
Serial arsonist Roshan Patel, 44, was arrested at 2:45 a.m. Dec. 8 in the Warm Springs neighborhood of Fremont, as detectives observed him getting out of his car and pouring flammable liquid onto a parked car. They attempted to intervene, but Patel had already set the car on fire. Police arrested him as he ran back to his own car, and extinguished the ignited car with a nearby garden hose.
The suspect was booked at Fremont City Jail, and then transferred to Santa Rita Jail in nearby Dublin. According to his Alameda County Inmate Locator record, Patel has been charged with one felony count of causing fire to an inhabited structure â which carries a sentence of two to four years in state prison â and one misdemeanor charge of causing fire to property, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in county jail.