A man was arrested Friday morning after he set multiple fires inside stores at the Ontario Mills mall, officials said.<\/p>\n
Ontario police said they responded to the mall at about 10:30 a.m. after callers reported that a man with a lighter and a backpack was intentionally setting fires.<\/p>\n
Officers found the suspect, who they identified as 28-year-old Luis Javier Gallegos Jr. of Rancho Cucamonga.<\/p>\n
The police said in a statement that Gallegos did not comply with their requests, and they used force to arrest him.<\/p>\n
Both Gallegos and an officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the arrest, the police said.<\/p>\n
After being treated at a hospital, Gallegos was booked into the West Valley Detention Center and charged with felony arson, the police said.<\/p>\n
Police said they are working to identify a motive for the crime and whether there is any connection to the April 7 arson<\/a> at the Kimberly-Clark warehouse in Ontario.<\/p>\n Prosecutors say the inferno destroyed the 1.2 million square-foot warehouse and the paper products inside, resulting in $500 million in damages.<\/p>\n Chamel Abdulkarim, a Highland resident who worked at the warehouse, is facing both state and federal arson charges for setting the fire.<\/p>\n