Police have identified the suspect accused of going door-to-door lighting residential flags in Long Beach, California.
Police named John Leo Meylor, 35, as the suspect allegedly caught on video lighting US and military flags this week.
Meylor, 35, faces 13 counts of arson, as well as an additional charge of arson to an inhabited structure. He is also being charged with violating his previous probation, according to local outlet ABC 7.
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Meylor allegedly moved from house to house with a lighter around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. according to FOX 11.
Long Beach police cars.
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A series of reports came in later that morning of multiple flags being burned along Iroquois Avenue and Hackett Avenue.
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Footage of a house doorbell appears to capture Meylor’s struggle to light a flag on the driveway of a resident’s home.
Video footage shows a man setting fire to an American flag in Long Beach, California.
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Locals reportedly identified Meylor using the footage, leading to his arrest by local police.
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The suspect reportedly targeted Americans and military flags but left others intact. Police say more than a dozen properties were vandalized.
A burning flag fell on a resident’s parked BMW, which was engulfed in flames.
