Huntington Beach police arrest man who allegedly set trash bin fires

Huntington Beach police have arrested a man who allegedly set a series of trash bin fires early Tuesday morning.

Leroy Waylon Begay of Barstow, 42, was arrested Tuesday night by police. He was booked into the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange on charges of property arson, and bail was set at $20,000.

Huntington Beach Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Carey said that police received reports of seven different residential trash bin fires Tuesday morning, starting at 1:25 a.m. The fires were located between 1st and 7th streets.

Residential surveillance footage helped Huntington Beach police make an arrest.

(Courtesy of Huntington Beach Police Department)

Police officers and the HB1 police helicopter searched the downtown area, Carey said, before residential video surveillance aided the department’s fire arson investigators in arresting Begay later that night.

He was arrested at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday without incident near the Dairy Queen at Pacific Coast Highway and 1st Street, Carey said.

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