EAST BAY, CA \u2014 An arson investigation at a popular shoreline park escalated into a struggle after officers tracked down a man suspected of lighting grass on fire, leading to a tense arrest involving projectiles and a butane lighter.<\/p>\n
Smoke rising from a shoreline grass fire in at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline quickly turned into a confrontation when officers cornered a man accused of starting the blaze and watched the encounter spiral into a struggle beside the burned field.<\/p>\n
Officers with the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department were responding to reports of a man using a lighter to ignite grass at the site. <\/p>\n
With aid from the department\u2019s Eagle 7 air support unit, officers located the man nearby and tried to arrest him. <\/p>\n
Police said the man became aggressive during the encounter, threw objects at officers, resisted attempts to restrain him, and tried to use a butane lighter against them.<\/p>\n
Officers deployed “less-lethal force” and eventually subdued the man. <\/p>\n
Investigators said a witness later identified the suspect as the person responsible for setting the grass fire.<\/p>\n
Authorities also discovered the man had an active felony warrant and was already on county probation connected to a false imprisonment case.<\/p>\n
Fire crews contained and extinguished the blaze before it spread farther through the shoreline vegetation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST BAY, CA \u2014 An arson investigation at a popular shoreline park escalated into a struggle after officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-310879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310879","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=310879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}