Jesus Fabian Gonzalez
On October 15, 2017, Jesus Fabian Gonzalez was arrested in Sonoma County, California, after he walked away from a fire carrying a lighter and fire extinguisher. Gonzalez, who is homeless, started the fire to keep warm. The fire was harmless and quickly extinguished. He was held in jail on an arson charge and an unrelated drug charge. He lived in a camp under a bridge and was known to deputies and other homeless residents as having a habit of setting fire to brush along the creek bed. Authorities and media fact checkers quickly debunked inflammatory claims that Gonzalez had started one of the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.
Stock prices[edit]
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The stock price of PG&E, which had fallen due to possible liability if the fires had been caused by power lines, rose after news reports of Gonzalez' arrest.[1]
ICE deportation request[edit]
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a statement connecting Gonzalez' arrest to the continuing threat of "massive wildfires".[2]
Allegations of false news reports[edit]
Media fact checkers condemned as false the reports on Breitbart and Infowars that tied Gonzalez' arrest to fires in California wine country. The New York Times published an article titled "How the California Wildfire Was Falsely Pinned on an Immigrant".[3] Snopes described the reports as part of "a series of articles [that] fervently blamed immigrants and Muslims for devastating California fires—falsely, misleadingly, and without evidence."[4] Sonoma County sheriff Rob Giordano said Gonzalez lit a small fire to keep warm but had no connection to the wildfires.[5][6][7]
References[edit]
- ↑ "PG&E shares spike after suspected wildfires arsonist is arrested in Northern California". CNBC. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Cal Fire continues to probe cause of deadly wildfires despite arson arrest". CNBC. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ "How the California Wildfire Was Falsely Pinned on an Immigrant". New York Times. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Immigrants Arrested for Starting California Wildfires?".
- ↑ Sabalow, Ryan (17 October 2017). "Sonoma sheriff shoots down right-wing reports linking arson suspect to wine country fires". Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ Street, Chriss (17 October 2017). "ICE Detainer Issued for Suspected Wine Country Arsonist in Sonoma Jail". Sacramento Bee]]. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ (ICE)%5d "Statement from ICE Acting Director on Sonoma County's repeated releases of dangerous criminal alien" Check
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