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Fire damage at Berkeley Animal Services after arson attack last weekend. Courtesy of Berkeley Police Department. June 11 2026. <\/p>\n
BERKELEY, Calif. – \u00a0The Berkeley<\/a> Police Department arrested a man on Thursday in connection with last week’s arson at Berkeley Animal Care Services<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police said the suspect used a rock to break a window and started the fire using some sort of improvised incendiary device.\u00a0<\/p>\n Suspect in Berkeley animal shelter arson arrested\u00a0 <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The suspect, Peter Taraba, 48, was arrested without incident on Thursday morning on suspicion of arson<\/a>\u00a0and multiple counts of cruelty to animals<\/a>, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Detectives were able to identify Taraba through evidence and reviewing security video from the area, which he returned to.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mugshot of Peter Taraba, a 48-year-old man, who was arrested Thursday morning on suspicion of arson\u00a0and multiple counts of cruelty to animals. Courtesy of Berkeley Police Department. June 11, 2026.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Background <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The arrest comes after the fire broke out early last weekend<\/a> under a stairwell in the shelter.<\/p>\n There were no injuries reported.<\/p>\n Berkeley Animal Care Services is still closed to the public as they recover from this attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n Contributions to Berkeley Humane’s Hope Medical Fund can help provide emergency foster housing, medical care, supplies, transportation, and other resources needed to support animals affected by this fire.<\/p>\n BPD thanked the community for their support and the investigators and officers for swiftly identifying and apprehending the suspect before any further harm could be caused to their city.<\/p>\n The Source: Berkeley Police Department and prior KTVU reporting.<\/p>\n Berkeley<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Fire damage at Berkeley Animal Services after arson attack last weekend. Courtesy of Berkeley Police Department. June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,764,1184,2042,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-357212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-berkeley","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357212","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=357212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hkky1wvaeaadjqv.jpg\")
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