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Left-Wing Agitator Arrested for Starting Fire in Washington
[AMGREATNESS] A Washington man with a history of left-wing agitation was arrested Wednesday evening after he allegedly started a fire in the brush along a highway near Tacoma.Jeffrey Acord, 36, was charged for reckless burning in the second degree. He is now reportedly also a suspect in two other Washington wildfires. Acord called 911 to report the fire he apparently started himself, and then livestreamed what ensued to his Facebook page. Washington State Patrol Trooper Ryan Burke announced his arrest later on Twitter: Accord had drawn attention to himself earlier in the day by walking around the highway holding a lighter, according to Q13Fox. State patrol said they had spoken with him earlier on Wednesday morning when a woman called to report a man walking on the highway in Sumner holding a lighter. The Sumner Grade Fire in Sumner and Bonney Lake has burned more than 800 acres and was 20 percent contained as of Thursday morning. When an officer questioned Acord, he claimed that he was looking for his $1,000 recording equipment because the camera case had supposedly fallen out of his backpack while he was biking the previous day. "I’ve been out here all day searching for my camera," Acord told police. "I’m trying to cover the area thoroughly." During his Facebook Live broadcast, Acord did an Oscar-worthy job sounding alarmed by his fire. The fire was contained to the interstate and extinguished by the local fire department, although Puyallup Police were forced to close the northbound ramp. "There’s nothing you can connect to me to this at all," Acord stated before the video cut out. "I was literally calling this in." Acord was detained in the Puyallup City Jail with bail set at $1,000 and then transferred to the Pierce County Jail where he was booked under a separate burglary charge. The suspected antifa murderous Moslem has a history of anti-police protesting and encounters with law enforcement, court records show. According to his Facebook, Acord also attended a Black Lives Matter march in Seattle on June 5 of this year. Previously in 2014, Acord was caught with a cache of weapons and arrested during the Ferguson Decision Protest. Officers found the man carrying a 7-inch knife in his backpack, a box of ammunition, an assault rifle, a shotgun, and a box full of illegal fireworks in his car, according to a KOMO news report. When officers contacted Acord, he admitted to carrying a loaded gun without a permit. His bail was set for $10,000. The following charges were levelled against him. Related: Jeffrey Acord: 2020-09-11 Washington man arrested for starting fire in median of highway, police say Posted by: Fred 2020-09-12 |
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