A man with a sword that fled from the agents of the Sheriff of Santa Barbara County began a fire brush his attempt to escape, authorities said.
The wild sequence of events began when the agents resorted to a report of a “suspect that exhibits strange behavior” on Wednesday at Captain Canyon Resort. While they headed to the scene, the suspect tried to get away on a dirt road, but his vehicle stuck.
The suspect, later identified as Simon Khalili, 40, of Woodland Hills, then disappeared in a nearby cannon, announced the Sheriff’s department in a press release.
A few minutes later, the flames exploded from the area, the department said. Around the moment the fire broke out, the agents who were looking for the suspect learned that he was allegedly armed with a sword, which would represent a danger to the firefighters who needed to attack the fire before he left control.
With the deputies as their protection, firefighters moved to the area to fight the flames while a helicopter dropped water from the head, authorities said. A K9 unit was called to help with the search and a helicopter supervised the scene.
Khalili gave the deputies around 7:30 pm, approximately two hours after the persecution began, and made it the authorities with the state parks of California. The fire stopped approximately 1 acre approximately 10 minutes after Khalili was captured.
Khalili was admitted to a county jail under suspicion of fire of a serious and evil crime, wielding a negligent weapon and fire, according to the Seriff’s office.
It is being a hero instead or a bail of $ 75,000.
