A 29-year-old has been arrested and charged with intentionally starting what became the deadly Pacific Palisades wildfire that killed 12 people and destroyed large swaths of Los Angeles earlier this year.

Jonathan Rinderknecht of Florida was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 7, according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He’s accused of setting the fire on land owned by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority just after midnight on Jan. 1.

Rinderknecht is reportedly set to make his first court appearance in Florida before being moved to California to officially face the charges against him. (He has not yet entered a plea.) If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison, with a minimum sentence of five years.

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