{"id":244423,"date":"2026-03-31T03:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244423\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:32:13","slug":"san-rafael-man-accused-of-arson-in-marin-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244423\/","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":106960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,723,12119,3802,181,23,8529,992,57683,100,180,993,266,101,103,102,32172,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-244423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-crime-public-safety","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-marin-city","15":"tag-marin-county","16":"tag-marin-sheriffs-office","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newsletter","19":"tag-north-bay","20":"tag-northern-california","21":"tag-san-francisco","22":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","23":"tag-san-francisco-news","24":"tag-san-rafael","25":"tag-sf","26":"tag-sf-headlines","27":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244423","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=244423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}