22-year old Luis Josue Perales is being held on $1 million dollar bail.
A man accused of setting 25 structures and vehicles ablaze throughout the Coachella Valley is being held on $1 million bail, fire officials reported Monday.
Luis Josue Perales, 22, is accused of setting fire to four occupied buildings, one unoccupied building, six vehicles and 14 other miscellaneous pieces of property, according to Jody Hagemann of the Riverside County Fire Department.
He was booked into the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning on suspicion of four counts of arson of an inhabited structure and 21 counts of arson of property, she said.
County fire investigators, with assistance from the Palm Springs police and fire departments, arrested Perales on the morning of March 31 on South Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs, according to Hagemann.
KESQ spoke with Perales wife who says her husband is innocent. She told us her husband would call her right after calling the fire department when he saw a fire. She said this happened multiple times.
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