Las Vegas, NV (KXNT) - Metro Police have arrested a man in connection with a series of car fires in a southeast neighborhood.
Police arrested 52 year-old Juan Lopez on one charge of first-degree arson and five charges of third-degree arson. Police say Lopez torched a number of vehicles in a neighborhood near Warm Springs and 215 earlier last week. No people were hurt by the fires, but the vehicles were totaled.
Police said they had video of Lopez leaving the scene of one fire, and detectives found a bottle of lighter fluid inside his car. Lopez bail was set at 50 thousand dollars with a status check in the case set for Tuesday.
According to an arrest report, Lopez was angry that his girlfriend had euthanized their sick dog. Police had previously been called to the victim’s house Sunday for a separate incident.