Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is a former resident of Pacific Palisades, was taken into custody on October 7 near his Florida home and was charged with destruction of property by means of fire, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. Rinderknecht ...

An Uber driver is facing a federal charge after allegedly setting a fire that turned into one of California's most destructive wildfires.

Federal law enforcement has arrested a suspect in connection with starting what became the Palisades blaze that killed 12 people and burned through thousands of acres. Among the evidence cited is an AI image of a burning city that the suspect allegedly generated with ChatGPT.

In the Hollywood neighborhood where he lived and worked as an Uber driver, one acquaintance described suspect Jonathan Rinderknecht as 'a really nice guy.'

Federal and local authorities today announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with the catastrophic Pacific Palisades Fire that erupted in January, killing 12 people and destroying thousands of structures,

Rinderknecht is accused of setting a brush fire Jan. 1 that was put out, but then smoldered unnoticed underground for days before igniting the raging Palisades inferno.