Crime & Safety
Suspect Arrested In Peninsula Parking Garage Arson
Police used security camera footage to track down the suspect: a 21-year-old man who'd been previously arrested for another arson incident.

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — Police arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of arson in connection with a deliberately set fire in a San Mateo parking garage early Tuesday.
Police and fire crews responded at 4:19 a.m. Tuesday to a fire inside a parking garage elevator on Ellsworth Avenue. Using security camera footage, police identified and tracked down the suspect, Carlos Cristerna, of San Mateo, who had been arrested in a previous arson incident in March.
Cristerna was arrested outside his home Wednesday morning, and was found to be in possession of clothing, a backpack and other evidence related to Tuesday's arson, according to the San Mateo Police Department.
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He was booked at the county jail on suspicion of two counts of arson and a probation violation.

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