{"id":244146,"date":"2026-03-31T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244146\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:04:07","slug":"san-rafael-man-accused-of-arson-in-marin-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244146\/","title":{"rendered":"San Rafael man accused of arson in Marin City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marin County sheriff\u2019s deputies arrested a man accused of setting bushes on fire near a Marin City business.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at about\u00a011:20 a.m. Saturday on Donahue Street. An employee of a nearby business extinguished the fire, the sheriff\u2019s office reported.<\/p>\n<p>A witness identified a potential suspect crossing a street. Deputies detained him and found a lighter in his possession, sheriff\u2019s Lt. Brennan Collins said. Investigators linked the man to the fire after reviewing a video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect displayed signs of mental health issues,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Ford, 55, was booked into the county jail on suspicion of arson. He remained in custody Monday in lieu of $25,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marin County sheriff\u2019s deputies arrested a man accused of setting bushes on fire near a Marin City business.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,8,8529,992,100,993,266,101,103,102,32172,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-244146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-news","10":"tag-marin-city","11":"tag-marin-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-north-bay","14":"tag-northern-california","15":"tag-san-francisco","16":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","17":"tag-san-francisco-news","18":"tag-san-rafael","19":"tag-sf","20":"tag-sf-headlines","21":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}