{"id":258261,"date":"2026-04-08T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258261\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:04:10","slug":"fresno-arson-suspect-arrested-in-strip-mall-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258261\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Arson Suspect Arrested in Strip Mall Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno authorities arrested a man Tuesday in connection with a strip mall fire that occurred last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Fire Department <a href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/2026\/04\/03\/fresno-firefighters-contain-blaze-at-east-ashlan-strip-mall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">responded Thursday, April 2, to a blaze<\/a> in the 1600 block of East Ashlan Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said surveillance footage captured a person intentionally setting multiple fires shortly before the building caught fire.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the Fresno Fire Department and Fresno Police Department identified and apprehended Kaliff Alabanzahall, 43.<\/p>\n<p>He was found nearby the area of the strip mall when he was arrested, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>He was booked into Fresno County Jail and faces two counts of felony arson, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno authorities arrested a man Tuesday in connection with a strip mall fire that occurred last week. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-258261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258261","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=258261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}