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Due to a traffic accident, after allegedly causing 4 different outbreaks in the Paraje del Pradico, the individual has been arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of forest fire. The Councilor for Citizen Security of the City Council of Lorca, José Luis Ruiz Guillén, has reported the fire that occurred in the Paraje del Pradico this morning. Ruiz explained that "around 8:50 am this morning, August 9, the Local Police of Lorca has received a notice informing of the accident of a tourist in the Paraje del Pradico, located in the Diputación de Parrilla, and Immediately, a police crew travels to the scene to facilitate access to the means of extinguishing fires and locate the occupant of the tourism that has not suffered injuries and who, according to witnesses, is an individual who is causing arson in the area.

" The mayor has detailed that "once the police personnel are in the area, the crashed car is observed on the access road to said place, without any occupant inside and closed and continuing the road and trying to locate the occupant, the troops of Police are interviewing several fire engines that are putting down the 4 fires that apparently the individual had caused along the way.

" Ruiz Guillén has indicated that "the largest fire was next to a farmhouse and it was its inhabitants who declared that the owner of the accident vehicle had been with them that night and that due to an argument he had left and one of the residents he had witnessed the first fire start, bringing a lighter to some bushes on the side of the road and then fleeing at high speed ". The Councilor for Citizen Security has revealed that "at 11:40 am, 112 is the one who warns the Local Police that the young man, the alleged perpetrator of the fire, is in a farmhouse near to which he arrived with an aggressive attitude, asking for water and insulting and accompanied by a dog, with characteristics similar to the description provided and the said young man being the alleged perpetrator of the events.

" José Luis Ruiz Guillén has announced that "the Local Police has proceeded to the immediate arrest of the young man, who has been transferred to the Lorca Civil Guard headquarters for the investigation of proceedings as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of forest fire."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca